Back Matter
The Yale Review, Emma Copley EisenbergA 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 | 15 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Annie Dillard (1945–2026)
Annie Dillard in her writing shed, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, July 30, 1987. Courtesy Richard Howard / The LIFE Picture Collection / Shutterstock
Annie Dillard died today at eighty-one. Her 1974 book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which chronicles...
Our Fall Issue
Cover image: Lucy Sante, A Vision, 2020. Courtesy the artist
Our latest issue is here—and you can read it online now.
It features new work from this year’s Windham–Campbell Prize recipients, as well as work by former winners:
Luc...
Behind the Essay: Sheila Heti
Our summer issue features a folio on AI in which a group of literary writers and critics pause to think through a technology evolving so rapidly it can be hard to keep up. In “Chasing Alice,” Sheila Heti recounts her journey experimenting w...
Behind the Story: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s short story, “Lanternfly,” from our Spring 2026 Issue, is literally a beach read: it takes place on the Jersey shore, amid sunbathers and ice cream cones and crab bakes. It’s also a subtle, surprising exploration of...
Behind the Essay: Aria Aber
In our Spring 2026 Issue, which is available online and in print now, Aria Aber writes about the Berlin club scene of her twenties and asks what remains when the party ends. Aber, whose debut novel, Good Girl, immerses readers in a fictiona...
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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.
at large // wrote FAT SWIM, HOUSEMATES, & THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL
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