Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature! In our Summer 1991 Issue, we published a selection of her "Short Talks." Revisit them here: yalereview.org/article/cars...

"He meets various shades she’s bound herself not to see. He tries to tell her the other women’s plain-jane jobs so she’ll know they’re just like her." —Laura Kolbe, "[He meets various shades...]" yalereview.org/article/laur...

"He meets various shades she’s bound herself not to see. He tries to tell her the other women’s plain-jane jobs so she’ll know they’re just like her." "[He meets various shades...]" by Laura Kolbe, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/laur...

Mary Barnard’s translations, Emily Greenwood writes, "affect readers as contemporary poems from antiquity, paradoxical as that sounds."

"It is Tuesday, and at the behest of her mother, I have chosen again to love her down" —Joseph Earl Thomas, "Dreaming in Panini" yalereview.org/article/jose...

The first retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work in twenty-five years is up at Artists Space in New York until November 21. Revisit our folio on "Dictee," with five writers and artists on Cha and her influence.

On our Substack, Joanna Biggs talks about her piece on ballet in our fall issue—the dancers she is watching now, what writers might learn from the body, and how to see ballet on a budget. backmatter.yalereview.org/p/behind-the...

Behind the Essay: Joanna Biggs

On ballet’s geniuses, writing from the body, and why we need more dancing at parties

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"My baby’s booty is nothing like the sun, for one, it is soft." "Dreaming in Panini" by Joseph Earl Thomas, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/jose...

"I felt terrible that I had argued with the famous writer. I also felt terrible that the famous writer… had turned out to be a stodgy middle-class Briton with the narrow views of his class." —Lucy Sante

"The child wrote down what he wanted: phone, toy car, puzzle. And then he wrote what he was thinking: Putin is a dick." —Carolyn Forché, "In the beginning"

"Even more important than the onset of desire is the fact that a poem is coming on." Emily Greenwood on the translation that made Sappho a modern love poet.

"My aunt wore a vest and a little hat and turned the crank on her storytelling machine, knowing when story met seam not all of the images moved easily through" —Chaya Holch, "Crankie Show in Wintertime" yalereview.org/article/chay...

"I was compelled to create PPJ because he is a complex character who is singular in his emotional wounds, his dark and frightening actions, and his brilliance." Christina Anderson on her play "Man in Love."

"Momager: O Kim, tho it’s still dark it’s almost dawn time to make the protein shake" —Joyelle McSweeney, "Killanova"

"Moby-Dick is a giant parable of thought and knowledge." Tom McCarthy on Melville and the sublime.

"Poe’s stories… let us live for a while in our knowledge of the worst. He gives us that weird and dark reprieve." Emily Ogden on the sinister visions of Edgar Allan Poe.

"This is the secret of the city, young man. The invisible secret that flows through everything. Capital. We made it work like the water." An excerpt of S. Shakthidharan’s play "The Sun’s Song."

"My father’s sister had a little box she carried from stage to stage, hung with a scroll, the frame ornamented with pencils and matchsticks, strung up with stories sung and chanted" —Chaya Holch, "Crankie Show in Wintertime" yalereview.org/article/chay...

"The scent of yellow sweet clover is the last thing of this world I will lose, though when I crush the flowers in my hands I can’t find it" —Karen Solie, "Clover"

"My aunt wore a vest and a little hat and turned the crank on her storytelling machine, knowing when story met seam not all of the images moved easily through" —Chaya Holch, "Crankie Show in Wintertime" yalereview.org/article/chay...

"'They say that I am a dissident,' he said, and roared with laughter. 'If I were a dissident I would have been dead long ago.'" Lucy Sante on an encounter with a famous writer.

"on the ground the girl I was decades ago looks up not because a sound was heard but because something came between the sun and herself" —Carolyn Forché, "Written in pencil / anamnesis"

"‘Empty vessels,’ he said. ‘It’s a cliché for a reason.’" Two sketches by Gwendoline Riley.

"My father’s sister had a little box she carried from stage to stage, hung with a scroll, the frame ornamented with pencils and matchsticks, strung up with stories sung and chanted" "Crankie Show in Wintertime" by Chaya Holch, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/chay...

"Kendall: Cry more, I’m famous a moon-goddess with five phases: Slim, Tall, Lovely, Rich, and I forget the fifth but somehow I’m still beta next to Kim" —Joyelle McSweeney, "Killanova"

"An English professor sent me a check for $2.50. He had read a Melvin Maddocks piece which quoted Cyril Connolly’s saying that we should tip authors. I didn't know what to make of the $2.50. I cashed the check." yalereview.org/article/anni...

Annie Dillard: "Making Contact"

The author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek shares the most surprising letters sent by her readers.

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"His mentor will feel obligated to bring him home; which is to say, the eminent professor is coming to appropriate his Surinam specimens." —Adam Ehrlich Sachs, "The Flora of Surinam"

Join us tomorrow for coffee and conversation at the College Street tent. Our editorial director, Clare Sestanovich, sits down with Christina Anderson, Joyelle McSweeney, S. Shakthidharan, and Karen Solie at 10:30.

Morning Wake Up

September 17th, 2026 at 10:30 AM. College Street Tent. 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival.

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"With Sappho, where else to begin but on the pillow?" Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard’s translation, and the sickbed where it began.

"The mythologies of strong men Speed ahead of me: Samson, Prometheus, Apollo, Hercules. Why can’t I reverse The history cupped in my father’s hands?" —Rachel Eliza Griffiths, "Driving Past My Father" yalereview.org/article/rach...