Criticism

Books

Poetically Speaking

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

The Polycrisis

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

Gender Wars

Two scholars excavate the origins of today’s trans backlash
Paisley Currah
Books

In Search of Albertine

The feminist afterlives of Proust's iconic character
Victoria Baena
Books

Alice Notley’s Disobedience

The shape-shifting voice that changed American poetry
Tausif Noor
Books

Stealing the Show

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater
Charlie Tyson

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Criticism

From the Archives

Alice Munro

The short-story writer's prismatic final collection
Jane Mendelsohn
April 1, 2014
From the Archives

Charles Simic

Stephen Yenser
April 1, 2002
A portrait of James Ellroy
Recordings

Recordings in Review: James Ellroy

James Ellroy
April 1, 1997
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

The Achievement of Norman Maclean

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1994
From the Archives

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990
From the Archives

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985
From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984
From the Archives

Mallarmé and Bataille

Richard Howard
October 1, 1982
From the Archives

Reading and Misreading

Jonathan Culler
October 1, 1975