From the Archives

The Poet as a Young Critic

In Thom Gunn’s early work for The Yale Review, he valued style above all else

The Role of the Modern Writer

In his work for The Yale Review, Thomas Mann grappled with an artist’s relationship to society


The Apostle of Love

How Thomas Mann discovered sensual education in The Magic Mountain

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf in The Yale Review

"A magazine is not a static thing or the creation of a single mind: it’s a site of the social and communal practice of thought."

Meghan O'Rourke Resurfacing Gems from The Yale Review's Archives

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Retrospect

December 1, 1946

Nocturnes

September 1, 1946

My Philosophy of Life

September 1, 1943

A Negro Nation

October 1, 1942

I Could Give All to Time

September 1, 1941

The Political Preface

An editor's note from Wilbur Cross during World War II
September 1, 1940

Tides of American Politics

December 1, 1939

The Shortest Way Home

October 1, 1939