Nonfiction

Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

Browse

Nonfiction

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Speaking Unspeakable Words

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Feisal G. Mohamed
November 2, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

Poet of October
Langdon Hammer
October 23, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

Making an art of conversation
Sam Huber
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A genuine gift for friendship
Rachel Mannheimer
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A poet you couldn’t hide from
Aria Aber
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

The poet who taught me to write books
Meghan O’Rourke
October 18, 2023
Books

Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King

A biography tries to pin the rocker down
Hannah Gold
October 16, 2023
Essays

Are Twins Kinda Gay?

What Dead Ringers reveals about pop culture's latest obsession
Helena de Bres
October 9, 2023
Books

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty
September 18, 2023
Books

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood
September 18, 2023