Nonfiction

Essays

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
Memoir

Dogsbody

Dale Peck
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
Essays

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

Browse

Nonfiction

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

The “American Tragedy” Murder, 1906

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
March 4, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Ode to my Father’s Boots

On aging
Cornelius Eady
February 28, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

The “Sausage Vat Murder,” 1897

Notes on a killing
Harold Schechter
February 18, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Philip Roth, Landlord

A literary rentier
Terena Elizabeth Bell
February 4, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

What Is An Emergency?

On the southern border
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 14, 2019
A cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
Books

“They Don’t Know It, but We’re Integrated”

Thomas Pynchon’s “The Secret Integration” and The Saturday Evening Post
Terry Reilly
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Natural and Spiritual Freedom

Martin Hägglund
January 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019
Early 20th-c painting of naked white person of uncertain gender with mid-length hair on a swing in front of a castle/clouds
Essays

Still, Image

Excerpts from In Remembrance of Things Past
Gerard Malanga
January 1, 2019
Painting showing a man and woman in a field
Criticism

The Angelus

Nan Z. Da
January 1, 2019