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Lessons of the Line

Charles Simic and me
Dana Levin
March 4, 2024
Essays

When Metaphor Gets Literal

What my mother’s coma taught me about reading poems
Jennifer Grotz
April 3, 2024
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Yellow Band

A diagnosis alters a writer's relationship to his work
Steve Edwards
April 29, 2024
Essays

The Critic as Friend

The challenge of reading generously
Merve Emre
June 10, 2024
Essays

Critical Navel-Gazing

If criticism is in crisis, it’s not the critic’s problem
Namwali Serpell
June 10, 2024
The Moment

A Reviewer’s Life

The material constraints of writing criticism today
Christine Smallwood
June 10, 2024
Essays

I, Too, Am John Clare

Becoming a different kind of postcolonial writer
Amit Chaudhuri
June 10, 2024
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Essays

Notes Upon Arrival

A diary of immigration and lost love
Bhanu Kapil
December 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Essays

Myth and Anarchy

Matthew Spellberg
April 1, 2019
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Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
January 1, 2020