Criticism

Art

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Books

The Polycrisis

Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Brandy Jensen
Books

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin
Books

Poetically Speaking

A new book makes the case for bewilderment as a critical virtue
Brian Dillon
Books

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware
Film

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge

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Criticism

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

On Andy Warhol

Art in review
Richard Deming
January 1, 2019
Photo of book cover with author Martha Nussbaum
Books

Shipwreck with Spectator

Martha Nussbaum on Our Political Crisis
Feisal G. Mohamed
January 1, 2019
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Music

The Last Valkyrie

Music in review
Dewey Faulkner
January 1, 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
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Books

Bondage and Freedom

Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
October 1, 2018
Two girls lie facing each other
Film

Life Unamplified

The small-scale satisfactions of Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud
Charles Taylor
October 1, 2018
A photograph of Danez Smith; the book cover image of Smith's collection "Don't Call Us Dead"
Books

On "Don’t Call Us Dead"

Poetry in Review
Christopher Spaide
October 1, 2018
The covers of two of author Nina Sun Eidsheim's books side by side
Music

Racialized Timbre

Listening to listening with musicologist Nina Eidsheim
Marit MacArthur
October 1, 2018
Photograph of Lisa Halliday; book cover of Asymmetry.
Books

Ventriloquizing and the Novel

The nesting structure of Lisa Halliday's Asymmetry
Ayten Tartici
October 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

Finding Proust’s Duchess

Clear-sighted literary commentary, and a guilty-pleasure read
Hollie Harder
July 1, 2018