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Unpublished journal entries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

Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
May 26, 2026
Black-and-white photo of the poet Raúl Zurita
Interviews

Raúl Zurita

The writer on what poetry can witness that no other form can
May 6, 2026
Annotating the Archives

Sara Teasdale in The Yale Review

Publishing a major minor poet
Maggie Millner
April 14, 2026
Annotating the Archives

Robert Frost at Midlife

In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form
Kamran Javadizadeh
April 6, 2026
Dreamlike nineteenth-century French lithograph of a woman resting her head on her hands
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
March 16, 2026
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
March 16, 2026
Essays

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
Memoir

Dogsbody

Dale Peck
March 16, 2026
Black-and-white photo of James Schuyler in the hallway of the Chelsea Hotel, New York City, 1988
Books

James Schuyler’s Genius

Why our greatest poet of the everyday has become a poet of the moment
Mae Losasso
March 16, 2026
Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
March 16, 2026