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—Virginia Woolf
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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...
This week, you may find yourself around at least one self-proclaimed “foodie.” @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what, if anything, that word still means. yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This week, you may find yourself around at least one self-proclaimed “foodie.” @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what, if anything, that word still means. yalereview.org/article/alic...
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"Being a foodie is no longer about experience and knowledge. Documentation is in; expertise is out, even if we can all cite Bourdain explaining that Sichuan food with Coke is the best way to cure a hangover." @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social
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yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
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November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Being a foodie is no longer about experience and knowledge. Documentation is in; expertise is out, even if we can all cite Bourdain explaining that Sichuan food with Coke is the best way to cure a hangover." @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social
yalereview.org/article/alic...
yalereview.org/article/alic...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This week only! All of our hats and tote are 40% off, including our Little Magazine Mini Tote. Plus: free shipping on domestic orders over $35.
Shop the sale: shop.yalereview.org/collections/...
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Democracy, empire, technology, and myth: from the American founding to fascism and the Cold War, we've gathered essays from our archives that trace how freedom falters—and how it might be reclaimed. #FallofFreedom
Fall of Freedom
Join a conversation 200 years in the making. We believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Democracy, empire, technology, and myth: from the American founding to fascism and the Cold War, we've gathered essays from our archives that trace how freedom falters—and how it might be reclaimed. #FallofFreedom
"There are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one," Thomas Mann wrote in 1946, "but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning." #FallofFreedom
Thomas Mann: “Germany and the Germans”
An essay by Thomas Mann: “As a young man, I thought and said that, once having been born into the world, it was a good and honorable thing to persevere .…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"There are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one," Thomas Mann wrote in 1946, "but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning." #FallofFreedom
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Miriam is so brilliant, and this conversation shows why…
For the second installment of our @shakespeareandcompany.com series—in which we bring you transcripts of interviews conducted at the legendary Paris bookshop—Miriam Toews speaks with Adam Biles on how writing resembles loss. yalereview.org/article/shak...
A Shakespeare and Company Interview with Miriam Toews
Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks with Canadian writer Miriam Toews about memoir, meaning-making, and what motivates the desire to give shape to…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Miriam is so brilliant, and this conversation shows why…
"In Those Years" by Adrienne Rich, from the Spring 1992 issue of The Yale Review.
#FallofFreedom
#FallofFreedom
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"In Those Years" by Adrienne Rich, from the Spring 1992 issue of The Yale Review.
#FallofFreedom
#FallofFreedom
Leon Trotsky’s analysis of fascism, published in the Winter 1933 issue of The Yale Review: an account of how economic crisis, parliamentary chaos, and social despair hardened into dictatorship. #FallofFreedom
Leon Trotsky: “Hitler's National Socialism”
A Leon Trotsky essay from TYR ’s archives: “At the start of his political career, Hitler stood out perhaps only because of his big temperament, a voice…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Leon Trotsky’s analysis of fascism, published in the Winter 1933 issue of The Yale Review: an account of how economic crisis, parliamentary chaos, and social despair hardened into dictatorship. #FallofFreedom
TYR is proud to participate in #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression & solidarity. We've gathered pieces from our archives that examine authoritarianism & cultural resistance. yalereview.org/fall-of-free...
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
TYR is proud to participate in #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression & solidarity. We've gathered pieces from our archives that examine authoritarianism & cultural resistance. yalereview.org/fall-of-free...
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This is exactly the work of criticism that I love. Taking both the lyric & the critique of it seriously, while also noticing the emotional resonance that writing can have and valuing that too. By Maggie Millner for @yalereview.bsky.social
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? longreads.com/2025/09/03/i...
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? longreads.com/2025/09/03/i...
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? - Longreads
"Shame seemed like an obstacle to appreciating the poet. Instead, it became the key to understanding her work."
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November 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This is exactly the work of criticism that I love. Taking both the lyric & the critique of it seriously, while also noticing the emotional resonance that writing can have and valuing that too. By Maggie Millner for @yalereview.bsky.social
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? longreads.com/2025/09/03/i...
Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? longreads.com/2025/09/03/i...
“For more than forty years, the word foodie has functioned as an inescapable shorthand for ‘someone who cares about food,’ writes Alicia Kennedy. But the “shape that care takes is the real question.” yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
yalereview.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“For more than forty years, the word foodie has functioned as an inescapable shorthand for ‘someone who cares about food,’ writes Alicia Kennedy. But the “shape that care takes is the real question.” yalereview.org/article/alic...
"Literal country music
warbled from truck speakers.
Images of the prophets hung inside."
— Samuel Cheney, "Literal Country Music," TYR’s Poem of the Week
warbled from truck speakers.
Images of the prophets hung inside."
— Samuel Cheney, "Literal Country Music," TYR’s Poem of the Week
Samuel Cheney: “Literal Country Music”
A poem by Samuel Cheney: “Afterwards we got snow cones / and sat on the curb.”
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November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Literal country music
warbled from truck speakers.
Images of the prophets hung inside."
— Samuel Cheney, "Literal Country Music," TYR’s Poem of the Week
warbled from truck speakers.
Images of the prophets hung inside."
— Samuel Cheney, "Literal Country Music," TYR’s Poem of the Week
Reposted by The Yale Review
The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...
"Preparing, serving, and eating food is now too often only a prelude to posting," writes Alicia Kennedy. How might we find our way back to the depth and seriousness the foodie once represented?
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Preparing, serving, and eating food is now too often only a prelude to posting," writes Alicia Kennedy. How might we find our way back to the depth and seriousness the foodie once represented?
"When I’ve finished a book, it’s like, 'Okay, good. That’s done. That’s over. Get it away from me.'"
A Shakespare and Company interview with Miriam Toews:
A Shakespare and Company interview with Miriam Toews:
A Shakespeare and Company Interview with Miriam Toews
Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks with Canadian writer Miriam Toews about memoir, meaning-making, and what motivates the desire to give shape to…
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"When I’ve finished a book, it’s like, 'Okay, good. That’s done. That’s over. Get it away from me.'"
A Shakespare and Company interview with Miriam Toews:
A Shakespare and Company interview with Miriam Toews:
Our winter issue arrives soon! Preorder your copy now: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our winter issue arrives soon! Preorder your copy now: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...
Who was the "foodie"? A word that once signaled knowledge and experience now means almost nothing at all. In our Essay of the Week, @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what it would mean to take taste seriously again. yalereview.org/article/alic...
Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?”
Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie
yalereview.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Who was the "foodie"? A word that once signaled knowledge and experience now means almost nothing at all. In our Essay of the Week, @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what it would mean to take taste seriously again. yalereview.org/article/alic...
“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
Monica Ferrell: “Private Property”
A poem by Monica Ferrell: “The rain was rough / The ice was worse”
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November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
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And published simultaneously on our podcast: pod.fo/e/351d57
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
And published simultaneously on our podcast: pod.fo/e/351d57
For the second installment of our @shakespeareandcompany.com series—in which we bring you transcripts of interviews conducted at the legendary Paris bookshop—Miriam Toews speaks with Adam Biles on how writing resembles loss. yalereview.org/article/shak...
A Shakespeare and Company Interview with Miriam Toews
Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks with Canadian writer Miriam Toews about memoir, meaning-making, and what motivates the desire to give shape to…
yalereview.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For the second installment of our @shakespeareandcompany.com series—in which we bring you transcripts of interviews conducted at the legendary Paris bookshop—Miriam Toews speaks with Adam Biles on how writing resembles loss. yalereview.org/article/shak...
“The way a poem stirs
In an alphabet,
Where already desire and nostalgia
Are starting to spin”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
In an alphabet,
Where already desire and nostalgia
Are starting to spin”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
yalereview.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The way a poem stirs
In an alphabet,
Where already desire and nostalgia
Are starting to spin”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
In an alphabet,
Where already desire and nostalgia
Are starting to spin”
— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”
We are saddened to hear of the death of Kai T. Erikson, a distinguished sociologist and former editor of The Yale Review. Penelope Laurans—former associate editor of TYR—offers a remembrance of Erikson's life and work. news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist and historian of disaster
Kai T. Erikson, a beloved teacher and prominent figure on Yale’s campus for 45 years, died on Nov. 10.
news.yale.edu
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are saddened to hear of the death of Kai T. Erikson, a distinguished sociologist and former editor of The Yale Review. Penelope Laurans—former associate editor of TYR—offers a remembrance of Erikson's life and work. news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...
“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
From "Private Property" by Monica Ferrell, TYR’s Poem of the Week:
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
From "Private Property" by Monica Ferrell, TYR’s Poem of the Week:
yalereview.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
From "Private Property" by Monica Ferrell, TYR’s Poem of the Week:
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”
From "Private Property" by Monica Ferrell, TYR’s Poem of the Week:
Reposted by The Yale Review
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...
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...