“A great contrast to the usual magazine.” —Virginia Woolf Join a conversation 200 years in the making. https://yalereview.org/https://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muzyfpmhu72lWhere does the voice we know as Sappho’s come from? Emily Greenwood on Mary Barnard’s inventive translation, back in print this fall. https://yalereview.org/article/emily-greenwood-sappho08 Sep 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzyfpmhu72lhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muzpqksbw72lShould you meet your literary idols? Lucy Sante recalls five interactions between 1975 and 2009. https://yalereview.org/article/lucy-sante-famous-writers-school08 Sep 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzpqksbw72lhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muzge6huf52gOur Fall 2026 issue is online in full: new work by this year’s Windham–Campbell Prize winners and previous recipients, plus critical essays on ballet, translating Sappho, and the filmmakers who stop making films. https://yalereview.org/issues/fall-202608 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzge6huf52ghttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muuz7esaws25"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" https://yalereview.org/article/carolyn-forch%C3%A9-written-in-pencil06 Sep 2026 22:12 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuz7esaws25https://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mushmlwv6a22"No one looks askance at him because no one could possibly suspect how many plants he has on his person; no one has any idea that he has a whole region’s plants on his person." —Adam Ehrlich Sachs, "The Flora of Surinam" https://yalereview.org/article/adam-ehrlich-sachs-flora-surinam05 Sep 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mushmlwv6a22https://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mus4irboxt2r"It was like a fairy tale, in a way. I had to ask three times, sometimes, to gain admission to his mind." New fiction by Gwendoline Riley. https://yalereview.org/article/gwendoline-riley-two-sketches05 Sep 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mus4irboxt2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3murqyfkzgp2l"Momager: O Kim, tho it’s still dark it’s almost dawn time to make the protein shake are you delayed? No well-contoured brunette will do except for you" Joyelle McSweeney’s Greek tragedy "Killanova" has Kim Kardashian as its heroine. https://yalereview.org/article/joyelle-mcsweeney-killanova05 Sep 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3murqyfkzgp2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muq2mk6nn62g"The wings of their long dreams Are food for future squirrels. If they want to be girls Together, they can be girls." —Stephanie Burt, "Aubade" https://yalereview.org/article/stephanie-burt-aubade04 Sep 2026 22:54 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muq2mk6nn62ghttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mupsc5lix32cGloria Steinem, who died this week, cofounded Ms. magazine in 1971. Nobody expected it to work; the first issue sold out in eight days. Revisit Maggie Doherty's annotation of Ms.'s first cover, from 2023. https://yalereview.org/article/closer-look-ms-magazine04 Sep 2026 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupsc5lix32chttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mupf2dh4wn2e"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" https://yalereview.org/article/joyelle-mcsweeney-killanova04 Sep 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupf2dh4wn2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mup42hzbw72bPart of the pleasure of Mary Barnard's Sappho translation, Emily Greenwood writes, is "witnessing an accomplished woman poet editing the fragments of another astoundingly talented woman poet over a distance of twenty-five hundred years." https://yalereview.org/article/emily-greenwood-sappho04 Sep 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup42hzbw72bhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3munfmrzudt2c"One could assert that Paul Pare, Jr.,’s character feeds into the stereotype that Black men are dangerous and violent criminals who should be feared. As much as I reject that stereotype, I know it exists." —Christina Anderson https://yalereview.org/article/christina-anderson-man-in-love03 Sep 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3munfmrzudt2chttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mumxvb57zq2b"She seemed to channel both a tightly wound ballerina from another era and the muse Terpsichore, an ancient force of invention, autonomous, wild." Joanna Biggs on Mira Nadon and the star power that could save ballet. https://yalereview.org/article/joanna-biggs-ballet03 Sep 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumxvb57zq2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mumn3tnuf22e"They seem to represent an idealized vision of filmmaking as an expressive act, free, if not from financial concerns, then at least from industrial obligations." Bilge Ebiri on why we love directors who stop making films. https://yalereview.org/article/bilge-ebiri-reticent-auteur03 Sep 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumn3tnuf22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mukqfuhya623"The wings of their long dreams Are food for future squirrels. If they want to be girls Together, they can be girls." —Stephanie Burt, "Aubade" https://yalereview.org/article/stephanie-burt-aubade02 Sep 2026 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukqfuhya623https://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mukjr3lp5k2b"Many amateur historians today have set out to restore the ‘true history’ of John Canoe. But perhaps they only restory it." Kei Miller on the elusive namesake of a Caribbean festival. https://yalereview.org/article/kei-miller-john-canoe02 Sep 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukjr3lp5k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mukeksf27y2l"It seems fitting that the house in which I awoke to jot down my incoherent thoughts on Moby-Dick belonged to one of twentieth-century art’s main avatars, the American painter Ed Ruscha." Tom McCarthy on Melville and the blank page. https://yalereview.org/article/tom-mccarthy-indefinite-sublime02 Sep 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukeksf27y2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muk6smus452eIn our fall issue, Joanna Biggs imagines a renaissance for classical dance. "I have always assumed that I was born too late for the geniuses of ballet." https://yalereview.org/article/joanna-biggs-ballet02 Sep 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk6smus452ehttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mujxrcvigz2c"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." https://yalereview.org/article/s-shakthidharan-the-suns-song02 Sep 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujxrcvigz2chttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mujrq6g4vt2i"If you want attention, ask. There’s a beaver—no, two baby beavers—among the dank rushes." "Aubade" by Stephanie Burt, TYR's Poem of the Week: https://yalereview.org/article/stephanie-burt-aubade02 Sep 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujrq6g4vt2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muiecgn5vx2o"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" https://yalereview.org/article/karen-solie-clover01 Sep 2026 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muiecgn5vx2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mui6goep2x2i"I will try to weed out the exposition and situate each phrase, each word, inside what the character needs and wants to say—nothing more, nothing less." S. Shakthidharan on revising his play "The Sun’s Song." https://yalereview.org/article/s-shakthidharan-the-suns-song01 Sep 2026 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mui6goep2x2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muhvtg7gi22j"‘Who’s that for?’ I said. ‘This is Lydia’s chair. Lydia is on her fifth year, now, of this two-year course.’" New fiction by Gwendoline Riley, out now in our Windham–Campbell issue. https://yalereview.org/article/gwendoline-riley-two-sketches01 Sep 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhvtg7gi22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3muhq353xt52i"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 https://yalereview.org/article/lucy-sante-famous-writers-school01 Sep 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhq353xt52ihttps://bsky.app/profile/yalereview.bsky.social/post/3mufukqvipo2xBallet has been "anxious about itself" from the beginning—long before Timothée Chalamet’s disparaging comments earlier this year. Joanna Biggs on the persistence of an art form. https://yalereview.org/article/joanna-biggs-ballet31 Aug 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:wlxlfog44srgfaarnm7ttolj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufukqvipo2x