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Our Fall 2025 issue is here! Read new work from this year’s Windham–Campbell Prize winners, including Anne Enright, Sigrid Nunez, and Tongo Eisen-Martin, plus work from previous prize recipients, and much more. yalereview.org/issues/fall-...
Fifty years after AGAINST OUR WILL brought rape into public conversation, Claire Bond Potter traces the book’s complicated legacy—and what remains of its lessons. yalereview.org/article/clai...
Claire Bond Potter: “The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape”
Claire Bond Potter on Susan Brownmiller’s landmark 1975 book, Against Our Will , fifty years later.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Fifty years after AGAINST OUR WILL brought rape into public conversation, Claire Bond Potter traces the book’s complicated legacy—and what remains of its lessons. yalereview.org/article/clai...
Our Winter 2025 issue—featuring Lucian Freud’s Still Life with Green Lemon on the cover—arrives next month. Inside: nine poets on psychoanalysis, a new story by Nathan Englander, and essays by Anahid Nersessian and Rachel Cohen. Preorder now to reserve your copy: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Our Winter 2025 issue—featuring Lucian Freud’s Still Life with Green Lemon on the cover—arrives next month. Inside: nine poets on psychoanalysis, a new story by Nathan Englander, and essays by Anahid Nersessian and Rachel Cohen. Preorder now to reserve your copy: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...
In our Essay of the Week, Claire Bond Potter revisits AGAINST OUR WILL, a landmark book that changed the way we talk about rape. Fifty years later, what of its lessons endure? yalereview.org/article/clai...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In our Essay of the Week, Claire Bond Potter revisits AGAINST OUR WILL, a landmark book that changed the way we talk about rape. Fifty years later, what of its lessons endure? yalereview.org/article/clai...
"What part of the mind studies
its own lapses and eclipses,
its habit of blocking one memory
with another, or the holes it makes"
—Chase Twichell, "Uh-oh, Uh-oh," TYR's Poem of the Week
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its own lapses and eclipses,
its habit of blocking one memory
with another, or the holes it makes"
—Chase Twichell, "Uh-oh, Uh-oh," TYR's Poem of the Week
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Chase Twichell: “Uh-oh, Uh-oh”
A poem by Chase Twichell: “What bird says uh-oh, uh-oh? / Some kind of crow. // I used to know its name. / Whole flocks of names have flown”
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"What part of the mind studies
its own lapses and eclipses,
its habit of blocking one memory
with another, or the holes it makes"
—Chase Twichell, "Uh-oh, Uh-oh," TYR's Poem of the Week
yalereview.org/article/twic...
its own lapses and eclipses,
its habit of blocking one memory
with another, or the holes it makes"
—Chase Twichell, "Uh-oh, Uh-oh," TYR's Poem of the Week
yalereview.org/article/twic...
"At its most interesting, AFTER THE HUNT is a marvelously acted old-fashioned thing about rippingly flawed people and their pain."
What “After the Hunt” Gets Right
Annie Julia Wyman, the writer of The Chair , on Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"At its most interesting, AFTER THE HUNT is a marvelously acted old-fashioned thing about rippingly flawed people and their pain."
How do you mourn a literary mentor who shaped you—and also failed you?
Rachel Jamison Webster: “An Incomplete Mentorship”
Rachel Jamison Webster remembers her time with the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
How do you mourn a literary mentor who shaped you—and also failed you?
"In the ten rattling months since Trump took office, Guadagnino’s portrait has acquired a kind of unintentional, almost touching innocence." Annie Julia Wyman on AFTER THE HUNT for our Essay of the Week.
What “After the Hunt” Gets Right
Annie Julia Wyman, the writer of The Chair , on Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"In the ten rattling months since Trump took office, Guadagnino’s portrait has acquired a kind of unintentional, almost touching innocence." Annie Julia Wyman on AFTER THE HUNT for our Essay of the Week.
In Thomas Pynchon's new novel, the protagonist Hicks McTaggart has trouble caring much about the rise of fascism in interwar Europe. We are meant to see ourselves, Richard Beck writes, in Hicks's malaise.
Richard Beck: “Thomas Pynchon Is Angry”
In Shadow Ticket , the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
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November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In Thomas Pynchon's new novel, the protagonist Hicks McTaggart has trouble caring much about the rise of fascism in interwar Europe. We are meant to see ourselves, Richard Beck writes, in Hicks's malaise.
“The system itself has been the most powerful hunter since long before cancel culture supposedly redefined the terms of the chase.” Annie Julia Wyman on what Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT gets right—in TYR’s Essay of the Week.
What “After the Hunt” Gets Right
Annie Julia Wyman, the writer of The Chair , on Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt.
yalereview.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“The system itself has been the most powerful hunter since long before cancel culture supposedly redefined the terms of the chase.” Annie Julia Wyman on what Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT gets right—in TYR’s Essay of the Week.
How do you mourn a teacher who shaped you—and also failed you? Rachel Jamison Webster on a complicated mentorship. yalereview.org/article/rach...
Rachel Jamison Webster: “An Incomplete Mentorship”
Rachel Jamison Webster remembers her time with the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How do you mourn a teacher who shaped you—and also failed you? Rachel Jamison Webster on a complicated mentorship. yalereview.org/article/rach...
“Ellen taught me to take myself seriously and especially to take poetry seriously, not just the making of it, but how to think and speak about it.”
@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Ellen taught me to take myself seriously and especially to take poetry seriously, not just the making of it, but how to think and speak about it.”
@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org/article/trib...
@cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt.
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“One detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions.” Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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Richard Beck: “Thomas Pynchon Is Angry”
In Shadow Ticket , the novelist takes on America’s indifference to history
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October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“One detects a writer who has finally lost patience with Americans’ persistent failure to understand the obvious consequences of their own country’s actions.” Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...
From the archives: Richard Powers on Thomas Pynchon. "The Vineland it hurts to read about is our own heartbreaking, magnificent mess of a nation-state." yalereview.org/article/rich...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
From the archives: Richard Powers on Thomas Pynchon. "The Vineland it hurts to read about is our own heartbreaking, magnificent mess of a nation-state." yalereview.org/article/rich...
Thomas Pynchon's body of work "is among the most unified in postwar American fiction." In SHADOW TICKET, his signature paranoia turns more despairing.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Thomas Pynchon's body of work "is among the most unified in postwar American fiction." In SHADOW TICKET, his signature paranoia turns more despairing.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
"Pillows filled with river pebbles, green mat
steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream
of sandstorms, then warm warnings"
—Demetrius Buckley, "That's a Lot of Sh%@":
steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream
of sandstorms, then warm warnings"
—Demetrius Buckley, "That's a Lot of Sh%@":
Demetrius Buckley: “That's a Lot of Sh%@”
A poem by Demetrius Buckley: “Pillows filled with river pebbles, green mat / steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream / of sandstorms, then warm…
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October 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Pillows filled with river pebbles, green mat
steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream
of sandstorms, then warm warnings"
—Demetrius Buckley, "That's a Lot of Sh%@":
steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream
of sandstorms, then warm warnings"
—Demetrius Buckley, "That's a Lot of Sh%@":
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Coming soon in the Yale Review: Me on Terrence Malick’s influence among a generation of filmmakers.
Coming soon—Winter 2025, or our Therapy Issue.
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Coming soon in the Yale Review: Me on Terrence Malick’s influence among a generation of filmmakers.
Coming soon—Winter 2025, or our Therapy Issue.
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Coming soon—Winter 2025, or our Therapy Issue.
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
Nine poets explore the lyric’s proximity to the analytic. Plus: Anahid Nersessian on life after divorce; a new short story by Nathan Englander; and more.
Subscribe by November 5 to receive this issue: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...
“We should consider what Swift has achieved with this album: She’s made a work of retrospection.” Stephanie Burt on “The Life of a Showgirl.” yalereview.org/article/step...
How We’ve Misunderstood Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But it may be, Stephanie Burt argues, the singer's most honest work…
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“We should consider what Swift has achieved with this album: She’s made a work of retrospection.” Stephanie Burt on “The Life of a Showgirl.” yalereview.org/article/step...
“momma’s mom prayed for fire and got melted ice caps, long
summers and hurricanes blowing out towns
like birthday candles”
From "That's a Lot of Sh%@" by Demetrius Buckley, TYR's Poem of the Week:
summers and hurricanes blowing out towns
like birthday candles”
From "That's a Lot of Sh%@" by Demetrius Buckley, TYR's Poem of the Week:
Demetrius Buckley: “That's a Lot of Sh%@”
A poem by Demetrius Buckley: “Pillows filled with river pebbles, green mat / steel slate, heat too hot, nose dry, dream / of sandstorms, then warm…
yalereview.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“momma’s mom prayed for fire and got melted ice caps, long
summers and hurricanes blowing out towns
like birthday candles”
From "That's a Lot of Sh%@" by Demetrius Buckley, TYR's Poem of the Week:
summers and hurricanes blowing out towns
like birthday candles”
From "That's a Lot of Sh%@" by Demetrius Buckley, TYR's Poem of the Week:
"The book felt like putting on a jacket you haven’t worn in a while," writes Audrey Wollen, "and feeling around in its deep pockets, discovering a little pebble-like part of yourself." On Claire-Louise Bennett's BIG KISS, BYE-BYE.
Audrey Wollen: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
In her review of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye , Audrey Wollen meditates on desire and absence in life and letters.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The book felt like putting on a jacket you haven’t worn in a while," writes Audrey Wollen, "and feeling around in its deep pockets, discovering a little pebble-like part of yourself." On Claire-Louise Bennett's BIG KISS, BYE-BYE.
Taylor Swift’s twelfth album left critics and fans disappointed. But taken as a work of retrospection, Stephanie Burt writes, the album is a win. yalereview.org/article/step...
How We’ve Misunderstood Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But it may be, Stephanie Burt argues, the singer's mot honest work…
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October 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Taylor Swift’s twelfth album left critics and fans disappointed. But taken as a work of retrospection, Stephanie Burt writes, the album is a win. yalereview.org/article/step...
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“The Life of a Showgirl” received mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. But it may be Taylor Swift’s most deliberate—and honest—work yet, Stephanie Burt writes in our Essay of the Week.
How We’ve Misunderstood Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" received mixed reviews from fans and critics. But it may be, Stephanie Burt argues, the singer's mot honest work…
yalereview.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“The Life of a Showgirl” received mixed reviews from fans and critics alike. But it may be Taylor Swift’s most deliberate—and honest—work yet, Stephanie Burt writes in our Essay of the Week.
"We spent so much time worrying
that the other would leave. When we left,
it was just like we’d rehearsed, just like we’d seen."
From Kelan Nee’s “The Understudies,” TYR’s Poem of the Week.
that the other would leave. When we left,
it was just like we’d rehearsed, just like we’d seen."
From Kelan Nee’s “The Understudies,” TYR’s Poem of the Week.
Kelan Nee: “The Understudies”
A poem by Kelan Nee: “On my birthday we drove to Kansas City / and fucked on the couch of the rental // while the TV was on.”
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October 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"We spent so much time worrying
that the other would leave. When we left,
it was just like we’d rehearsed, just like we’d seen."
From Kelan Nee’s “The Understudies,” TYR’s Poem of the Week.
that the other would leave. When we left,
it was just like we’d rehearsed, just like we’d seen."
From Kelan Nee’s “The Understudies,” TYR’s Poem of the Week.