Criticism

Books

Gender Wars

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

Terrance Hayes Won't Be Pinned Down

The virtuosic poet is still finding new ways to dazzle—and thwart—his readers
Stephanie Burt
Books

In Search of Albertine

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

Parents Just Don’t Understand—and That’s OK

All of Us Strangers charts a new direction for queer cinema
Lio Wong
Books

Renaissance Women

A new book celebrates—and sells short—Shakespeare’s sisters
Catherine Nicholson
Film

The Auteur of Fatherhood

How Steven Spielberg recast American masculinity
Phillip Maciak

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

On "Poet in Spain: Federico García Lorca"

Poetry in Review
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
July 1, 2018
An image of the cover of the novel "The Mars Room"; a photograph of author Rachel Kushner.
Books

On "The Mars Room"

Fiction in Review
Abigail Deutsch
July 1, 2018
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Music

On The New York Philharmonic’s 175th Anniversary

Recordings in Review
Dewey Faulkner
July 1, 2018