Cover: Antek Walczak, Death (A Cup of Tea), 2017. Image: Omar Olguín. Courtesy the artist and Gaga, Mexico City.
Spring 2026
Volume 114, No. 1
Spring 2026
The Yale Review
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
An Unsettling Civil War Photograph
An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
March 16, 2026
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
Michel Chaouli
March 16, 2026
James Schuyler’s Genius
Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
March 16, 2026
Solvej Balle’s Philosophy of Time
How a novelist transformed a single day into a radical experiment in time
Clare Carlisle
March 16, 2026
The Body I Couldn't Abstract
Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
March 16, 2026
Fiction
Poetry
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Featured
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
A critic considers the strange moral pressure we feel to read to the very last page
Michel Chaouli
The Body I Couldn't Abstract
Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady