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A photograph of a tree.
Essays

The Tolstoyans

On my father's followers
Alexandra Tolstoy
and
Spencer Barnes
December 1, 1977
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977
A photograph of a London street during WWII.
Essays

After a Visit to England

London during the Blitz
Thornton Wilder
September 1, 1941
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
Essays

What You Have Heard Is True

Remembering the fight for Salvadoran freedom
Carolyn Forché
January 1, 2019
An old photograph of a churchyard cemetery. Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Essays

A Journal of the Plague

The 1918 Influenza
Francis Russell
December 1, 1958
Detail of a microchip
Essays

Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Is This Tyranny?

How losing the right to vote changed my understanding of America
Feisal G. Mohamed
April 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Listening to the Provinces

A painter’s letters home
Shifra Sharlin
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Prison Term

Peter Brooks
January 1, 2019