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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Fiction

July 1, 1989

About Gertrude Stein

July 1, 1988

Shéhérazade

December 1, 1987

A Courier for Jacques Lacan

The psychoanalyst invited me for lunch at his Parisian apartment—and drew me into his orbit
April 1, 1987

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
April 1, 1987

E. M. Forster

The novelist valued friendship above all else
April 1, 1987

Maugham

April 1, 1987

Meeting Matisse

I came looking for the genius behind La Ronde—and found a man sulking over old clippings
April 1, 1987