The Yale Review

A sneak peek at our summer issue! Inside: unpublished Annie Ernaux journals (plus a print-exclusive piece), essays by Namwali Serpell and Samuel Moyn, and a folio, “What Was AI?”—because by the time you read this, the answer will have changed. Subscribe: shop.yalereview.org/products/the-y…

"We may be heading into something less fatal but more depressingly entrenched than fascism." Rana Dasgupta on the future of democracy. yalereview.org/article/dasgup…

"I do think writing is like channeling, like the way magic might feel." —Alexander Chee yalereview.org/article/cathy-…

"Intimacy, I've found, has little to do with romance." —Melissa Febos yalereview.org/article/wild-s…

"Anything I do—anything I do—is going to be resistance." Aleshea Harris on artistic freedom. yalereview.org/article/dougla…

"I think the mother is language. The woman controls the language economy." —Rachel Cusk yalereview.org/article/rachel…

“We’ve been here before, you don’t know it yet. You, me, plankton protein whipped by the storm to the shore.” —Brian Orozco, “Mirascope” yalereview.org/article/brian-…

"I don't do book proposals or have a contract with a publisher when I start. I just write the book and hope someone somewhere will want to publish it." Geoff Dyer on his writing process. yalereview.org/article/surowi…

From the Archives: Virginia Woolf wanders the streets of London. "For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty; like a butterfly it seeks out color and basks in warmth." yalereview.org/article/street…

"How often are we dissuaded from desire on the basis of its absurdity, particularly when the desire is so humble, so small in size?" Katie Kitamura on her Object of Desire. yalereview.org/article/katie-…

"The circuit of the art is not completed until it has a reader." —Percival Everett yalereview.org/article/perciv…

"Some of our problems are so vast that they define our personalities; without them we'd be different people." —Sarah Manguso yalereview.org/article/loss

“After the step I assumed was last was another. One explains the sum of color.” —Brian Orozco, “Mirascope” yalereview.org/article/brian-…

"Once I tasted time I never wanted anything else. And that is what I'm doing here. The only way I can prove it is that I started writing. Writing is my alibi." —Eileen Myles yalereview.org/article/copyin…

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Come celebrate our forthcoming Summer 2026 Issue on Friday, June 5, at McNally Jackson Seaport! 6–8 PM, with short readings from issue contributors Nell Freudenberger, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Audrey Wollen.

"Life is too full of &s, too propulsive, too full of desire, of wishing, walking, looking, writing." Edmund de Waal on Virginia Woolf. yalereview.org/article/edmund…

“We’ve been here before, you don’t know it yet. You, me, plankton protein whipped by the storm to the shore.” From Brian Orozco's “Mirascope," TYR's Poem of the Week yalereview.org/article/brian-…

We are thrilled to share that The Yale Review has won the 2026 ASME Award for Fiction, presented last night at the National Magazine Awards! Congratulations to our writers, our editors, and our entire team. 🎉

"Writing is dissociative in a good way. You have to forget what you know, or think you know, to write. You have only very imperfect knowledge of your own intentions." —Ben Lerner yalereview.org/article/ben-le…

"Everything I do starts in the personal, and if it doesn't, it dies." —Raven Leilani yalereview.org/article/raven-…