The Yale Review

At The Yale Review, we believe in the power of perspective. The power of connecting great mindsacross disciplines, backgrounds, and generationsaround thought-provoking writing. Under the direction of its new editor, Meghan ORourke, the critic, memoirist, and poet, The Yale Review is celebrating its 200th anniversary by pivoting to the digital age, with a new website, a forthcoming podcast, and a new series of in-person events with writers and thinkers at Yale University and at large. A pre-eminent journal of literature and ideas, The Yale Review has published writers such as Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Stanley Cavell, Robert Lowell, John Hersey, Bayard Rustin, Adrienne Rich, James Merrill, and Rita Dove. We began in 1819 as The Christian Spectator, became The New Englander in 1843, and then an economics-focused Yale Review in 1892. The modern history of the journal began on a rainy day in 1911, when the English professor Wilbur Cross ducked under the umbrell...