The Yale Review

Edited by:
J. D. McClatchy

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The Yale Review publishes new works by the most distinguished contemporary writers - from Virginia Woolf to Vladimir Nabokov, from Robert Frost to Eudora Welty. The journal's pages have, for almost a century, been filled with the most exhilarating and astute writing of our times. Under the editorship of J. D. McClatchy, himself a prize-winning poet, The Yale Review presents up-and-coming writers, explores the broader movements in American thought, science, and culture, and reviews the best new books in a variety of fields.

TopNews and Announcements

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TopHighlights

• Previously unpublished work by Randall Jarrell and Thornton Wilder
• Eva Hoffman on psychoanalysis and storytelling
• Fritz Stern on the fate of Weimar
• Ned Rorem on musical personalities
• André Aciman on the uses of nostalgia
• John Malcolm Brinnin on Venetian palaces
• Joan Dayan on the mysteries of kinship
• Fiction by Alice Adams, Peter Cameron and Richard Stern
• Poems by Yehuda Amichai, Robert Bly, Linda Gregerson, Philip Levine and Kay Ryan
• Richard Wilbur's new translation of Moliére's The Bungler
• Leon Edel on meeting James Joyce
• Susan Sontag and Kenzaburo Oe on the responsibilities of the writer

TopEndorsements

"I have been lucky enough to see some recent issues of The Yale Review. It's more than reassuring to see that this fine journal is continuing to do precisely what our best literary quarterlies have always done -- to keep us abreast of fine new work, to help us to be more responsive and engaged critics, thinkers, and readers."
Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University

"I look forward to The Yale Review because I know I will encounter historians and poets, essayists and reviewers, who will take me on the most intriguing excursions beyond the headlines."
Peter Jennings, Broadcast Journalist

"Intelligent writing about the arts is crucial for their survival. By publishing writers from Virginia Woolf to W. H. Auden, The Yale Review has been at the heart of our culture for nearly a hundred years. It's a classic, and I treasure it."
Jessye Norman, Soprano

"I admire valuable traditions, and The Yale Review has a marvelous history of bringing wonderful writers to curious, demanding readers."
Diana Brooks, President, Sotheby's

"History, politics, science, literature - what an extraordinary and exciting range of ideas! The Yale Review is like a good investment that pays off with interest, year after year."
Richard Franke, Chairman and CEO, John Nuveen & Company

"Literary magazines perform an indispensable function - a whole support system for American letters. Surely one of its pillars is the esteemed Yale Review, a magazine of intelligence and acumen."
George Plimpton, Editor, The Paris Review

"It's good news that this noble, long-established periodical is back in circulation."
Iris Murdoch

"The Yale Review, with its distinguished history, is one of the very finest of American literary journals. Its thoughtfully edited contents include both imaginative and critical writing of a very high-and entertaining-order."
Joyce Carol Oates

"For years, whenever I found myself in some library's periodical room, I invariably went in search of The Yale Review , knowing that it would offer me something fresh, lucid, and stimulating to read. The magazine has become so lively in its latest phase that I gladly felt I had to subscribe to it; but I hope for the sake of others, that libraries will continue to subscribe as well: the Review, in whatever surroundings, is an oasis of good reading."
Richard Wilbur