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May 28, 2024
We’re almost halfway through 2024 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there...
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May 28, 2024
Heartiest congratulations to the English Department Prize winners for 2023-2024!
May 6, 2024
Awarded to Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker for a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often...
April 30, 2024
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...
April 29, 2024
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...
April 8, 2024
“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...
April 3, 2024
The Yale Review is the 2024 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics. See the list of winners here.