It’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It has absolutely nothing going for it,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-meets-criticism collection The Devil Finds...
This conversation is a little different. We wanted to take a break from the election-year political jousting to talk to the poet Christian Wiman about Zero at the Bone: Fifty...
“Why remember?” Danielle Chapman asks in her memoir Holler: A Poet Among Patriots. “Why dredge things up? Why go into all of that again?”
She notes that sometimes our...
The Yale Review is the 2024 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics.
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Susan Dominus Wins the National Magazine Award for Service Journalism for her article “A Vicious Cycle” in the New York Times Magazine.
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We had the good fortune of connecting with Erica Wachs and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Erica, why did you decide to pursue a creative path?
I didn’t always think...
But What Do the Tortured Poets Think? Christian Wiman responds to the question in the New York Times.
