Nonfiction

Essays

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
Books

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
Essays

Are Twins Kinda Gay?

What Dead Ringers reveals about pop culture's latest obsession
Helena de Bres
Essays

Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive

The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
Alec Pollak
Books

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood

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Nonfiction

From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
December 1, 1989
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

A Legend in My Life

My encounters with the incomparable Greta Garbo
Vincent Price
July 1, 1988
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard
July 1, 1988
From the Archives

Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution

Nancy F. Cott
June 1, 1988
Polaroid of Francine du Plessix Gray

Charles Olson and an American Place

Francine du Plessix Gray
April 1, 1987
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985
From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982