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My Mother and The Exorcist
A marquee for The Exorcist at the Warner Rendezvous cinema London, 1974. Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Today, on the eve of Halloween, we are sharing an essay by Marlena Williams about The Exorcist, first published...
Recent Prizewinners
Congratulations to our contributors whose work appears in The Best American Essays 2026, The Best American Short Stories 2026, and The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners!
Best American Short Stories 2026, Edited by...
A Reckoning: Twelve years of Republican rule
Burning of the Bonus Army encampment at Anacostia Flats in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 1932. The National Archives
A few times a month on Back Matter, we will resurface pieces from The Yale Review’s archives.
With the midterms less than...
Anne Carson’s “Short Talks”
Anne Carson at the 2024 National Book Awards finalist reading. Wikimedia Commons.
Today the Canadian poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in play...
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Dictee”
James Cha, Portrait of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, c. 1978. Courtesy the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
On September 11, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, the first retrospective of the artist’s...
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