Back Matter
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 10 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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Our Favorite Cultural Artifacts of 2025
Every year, we ask our staff: What was your most meaningful cultural encounter this year? We keep the remit deliberately broad—really nothing is off the table—and the result is a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic list. This year it features some...
Behind the Essay: Anahid Nersessian
In December of last year, we asked Anahid Nersessian, the writer and critic, to review a group of recent books about divorce. What emerged instead, over several drafts and many months, was an account of the end of her own marriage, and an u...
When Is a Story Finished?
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How do you know when a story is finished?
I’m asked this all the time. By students, by readers, by other writers who can’t seem to complete—or relinquish, or escape—some stubborn draft. It’s a reasonable...
Behind the Essay: Audrey Wollen
Audrey Wollen’s essays move easily among theory, fiction, film, and fashion, carrying a style at once playful and exacting. In a piece for our spring issue, she writes about the handbag and the feminized labor of care, which she also spoke...
Rec Letter: The Books That Help Us Write
Earlier this week, we opened for general submissions (in case you missed it!), which got us thinking about the books that have most shaped our own writing lives. Most of us who work at The Yale Review are writers ourselves—poets, essayists,...
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We’re the editors of The Yale Review. Back Matter is where we share prompts, notes, finds from the archive, and what we’re thinking about between issues.
Books, culture, writing craft, & fat liberation. I wrote HOUSEMATES, FAT SWIM, & THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL
author of GOOD GIRL
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