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

pastoral scene with sheep
Criticism

Ashbery’s Pastoral Art

Echoes of an older age
Giulio J. Pertile
November 1, 2017
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Books

On Claire Messud

Fiction in review
Marta Figlerowicz
November 1, 2017
Detail from cover of Bidart's book; classical statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head.
Books

On Frank Bidart

Poetry in review
Christopher Spaide
November 1, 2017
Exterior view of Metropolitan Opera
Music

The Metropolitan Opera’s Fiftieth Anniversary

Recordings in review
Dewey Faulkner
November 1, 2017
From the Archives

Alice Munro

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

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