Back Matter
The Yale Review, Garth Greenwell, Samuel Ernest, Meghan O'RourkeA new Substack from The Yale Review, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the oldest "little" magazine in America—featuring writing prompts, editorial insight, archival discoveries, and more.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 6 | Subscribers | Read | backmatter.yalereview.org |
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Latest Issues
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Rec Letter: The Books That Help Us Write
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Behind the Essay: Garth Greenwell
In 2023, The Yale Review published Garth Greenwell’s “A Moral Education,” an essay on Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater and the kind of moral work that art can do—by drawing us into discomfort and ambivalence. In our summer issue, out this we...
Rec Letter: Edmund White (1940–2025)
Three entry points into the work of Edmund White.
Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Small Rain, Cleanness, & What Belongs to You | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Guggenheim Fellow | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU
I'm a doctoral candidate in theology at Yale. I am founding a press called Homodoxy for gay/queer literature and theology. Its monthly Substack is The Rearview. samuelernest.com
Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Author of five books, including National Book Award finalist and New York Times Bestseller THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM | Formerly @ The New Yorker and The Paris Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale
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