“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe.
Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue.
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- After MRS. DALLOWAY and before TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Virginia Woolf wrote her first essay for The Yale Review. Nine more followed. We’ve made them all available online for the first time:
- Happy 100th birthday to James Baldwin. In 1961, at the age of 37, broke and emotionally spent, he arrived in Istanbul, where he lived on and off for the next ten years. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi charts this transformative period in the writer's life:yalereview.org/article/azaree…
- "In Oslo" by Sophia Walsh, a new poem in our winter issue.
- Today is the day! Our annual reading period begins now. Send us your best poems, stories, essays, and translations by September 30. Submit here: theyalereview.submittable.com/submit
- We are devastated by the death of Louise Glück, a longtime TYR contributor and a teacher and mentor to so many @Yale. Revisit four decades of her poetry in The Yale Review:
- 📣 Our submissions are now OPEN! 📣 Send us your best poems, stories, and essays by October 11. Read our guidelines and submit here: theyalereview.submittable.com
- Replying to @ConanOBrien and @Cornell_LibrarySuch a lovely exchange. White first published "Walden" after we solicited an essay on Thoreau in 1954. This led to us learning his dog was suffering from a tapeworm:
- “Then he was gone, out into the blinding sunshine among the high-shouldered crowds, sped and well-wished by an old man’s smile.” The great Cormac McCarthy has died. We've just made his story "Bounty" from our Spring 1965 issue available online:
- We are deeply saddened to hear of Charles Simic's passing. We've made available online a selection of his many poems published in TYR over the years and will be adding more in the coming days. Here's "Blood Orange" from our Fall 1996 issue. yalereview.org/author/charles…
- "To be Black, alive in any place requiring total surrender, is a particular kind of grief." Canisia Lubrin in conversation with Dionne Brand:
- We're thrilled to announce the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a new biennial prize that recognizes artful and innovative book-length works of nonfiction, co-sponsored by @yalepress and judged by @meghanor. Submissions open January 15, 2024! 🗓️ For details: yalereview.org/book-prize
- "Louise could derive and understand entire relationships and family feuds from just a few lines. How impossible it was to hide from her; how exhilarating, almost shockingly so, to listen to her." @AriaAber on the late Louise Glück:
- We're thrilled to announce that poet & novelist @AriaAber has joined The Yale Review as a contributing editor! A @WhitingFdn Award recipient, Aria is currently based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel GOOD GIRL is forthcoming from @HogarthBooks. Welcome, Aria! 🎊
