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More insightful than almost anything I’ve read to-date on how Trump sees himself and what that might portend for our collective future.

Michael Wolff on Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Problem James Surowiecki interviews Michael Wolff about how the Epstein files are haunting Trump’s presidency.

“Here is a window, Jeffrey Epstein, in which you can see who Donald Trump was, in a formative sense.” —Michael Wolff

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Susan Choi: My Days as a Fact-Checker at The New Yorker Susan Choi reviews Austin Kelley's The Fact Checker —and recalls her own early career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker .

3. "When Fact-Checking Meant Something" (Susan Choi)

"But Choi’s piece is a Trojan horse, a book review with a personal essay hidden within . . . "

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Mark Ruffalo thinks things over in the bath in Kenneth Lonergan’s YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2000).

Kenneth Lonergan @letterboxd.social, Víctor Erice @theaterofmatters.bsky.social, Vincent Price and Greta Garbo @yalereview.bsky.social, Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears @theguardian.com, Terry Gilliam @ BFI, new @sensesofcinema.bsky.social …

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Michael Wolff on Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein problem James Surowiecki interviews Michael Wolff about how the Epstein files are haunting Trump’s presidency.

Last fall, TYR senior editor James Surowiecki interviewed Michael Wolff about Jeffrey Epstein’s close friendship with Donald Trump—and why the mainstream media wasn’t covering it. Now that the story is making headlines, they spoke again. yalereview.org/article/mich...

Jean Garnett: "There I Almost Am" An essay by Jean Garnett: "Recently, I walked into a small grocery store near my house and the owner, a shy but sociable man, looked up at me and said,…

"You want your identical twin to be beautiful, to confirm that you are beautiful, but you also want her to be ugly, to confirm that she is uglier than you."

Jean Garnett on twinship and envy. yalereview.org/article/ther...

Susan Choi: My Days as a Fact-Checker at The New Yorker Susan Choi reviews Austin Kelley's The Fact Checker —and recalls her own early career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker .

"Somehow, my fact-checking job had slipped me into the envelope of another human’s most personal realm." — Susan Choi on fact-checking @newyorker.com for @yalereview.bsky.social

In this issue Anne Enright Marriage in Venice Sigrid Nunez New Year’s story Edmund de Waal Writing Mrs. Dalloway Patricia J. Williams A.I. on trial Rana Dasgupta Democracy? Tongo Eisen-Martin Three poems Richie Hofmann The Richard Siken effect Audrey Wollen On Claire-Louise Bennett

A first look at our fall issue! New work from Windham-Campbell recipients past and present—including Anne Enright, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Rana Dasgupta, and Edmund de Waal—plus criticism by Richie Hofmann and Audrey Wollen. Subscribe now & save 20%: shop.yalereview.org/products/the...

MICHAEL WOLFF Epstein was someone who had been friends with Trump- I think it's fair to say one of Trump's closest friends - for a decade at least. And he was always very interesting on the subject of Trump - very insightful, very funny. So in that moment in which I was trying to understand Who is Donald Trump? What is Donald Trump? How did this happen?, I felt Epstein had a very significant piece of the puzzle.

“Epstein was someone who had been friends with Trump—I think it's fair to say one of Trump's closest friends—for a decade at least.”

—Michael Wolff, interviewed by TYR senior editor James Surowiecki, November 2024: yalereview.org/article/mich...

Encounters Join a conversation 200 years in the making. We believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations.

We’ve made a selection available online now, with more to come in the months ahead. yalereview.org/encounters

Encounters Join a conversation 200 years in the making. We believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations.

Among them:
— Quentin Bell on Henri Matisse
— Bayard Rustin on A. Philip Randolph
— Eileen Simpson on Jacques Lacan
— Francine du Plessix Gray on Charles Olson
— Vincent Price on Greta Garbo
— Robert Giroux on E. M. Forster
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Originally published across three special issues in 1987 and 1988 under the title "Encounters," these essays trace the charged terrain where admiration gives way to friction—and sometimes deepens into reverence. yalereview.org/encounters

In our summer issue, Elena Gosalvez Blanco remembers her time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant—a role that became intimate and unsettling. We’re highlighting six pieces from our archives in which writers and artists recall their own brushes—both friendly and fraught—with formidable figures.

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“…[S]he didn’t need to abuse anything to create, though she herself had been so badly abused. Her paintings are in a sense walls against abuse—they receive the abuse and hold it and transform it into cleanness and sanity.”
—Rachel Cusk for @yalereview.bsky.social

"Because we aren’t just prone before our feelings [as readers]. We’re also analytical, reflexive creatures; we can step back from our feelings and make them objects of examination; we can submit them (and ourselves) to a process of education."

Good read. I just happened to watch the documentary Loving Highsmith last night. It was a little one-sided and didn’t really delve into her darker, disillusioned, and frankly hateful sides, but it is also worth a watch

This Bryan Washington story is so good -somehow both sparse and detailed 💙💙

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Our Poem of the Week newsletter, which features a new poem published every Wednesday, is taking a summer break. Through August, we’ll be sharing poems from The Yale Review archives.
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Bryan Washington: “Crossings” A short story by Bryan Washington: “First I spot him holding hands with his husband.”

“We finally look each other in the eyes. There’s a window—just for a second—where it feels like he’ll embrace me, but then it evaporates, as if his body suddenly remembers who we are.” New fiction by Bryan Washington in our summer issue.

How Richard Foreman Reinvented American Theater For five decades, Richard Foreman defied realism, plot, and theatrical convention. Jennifer Krasinski looks at the radical mind behind the…

“For theater artist Richard Foreman, who died this past January at age eighty-seven, the time of thinking, of writing, of creating was always now. And now. And now.”
Jennifer Krasinski remembers the madcap plays and philosophical fun of Richard Foreman.

Kathleen Ossip: “Reading” A poem by Kathleen Ossip: “There’s something dead in the middle of my reading.”

"But I am alive. Me in my little space reading. Not serious texts, not brilliant, just well-thumbed, meg jo beth, the surprise at the vicarage."
—Kathleen Ossip, "Reading"

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Rachel Cusk: “Into the Light” A short story by Rachel Cusk: “The artist B was married three times, two of them to the same man, though on the latter occasion his right leg was missing.”

"She didn’t need to abuse anything in order to create, though she herself had been so badly abused."

A story by Rachel Cusk in our summer issue.
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Rhona Bitner's Photographs of Pointe Shoes A portfolio of work from Rhona Bitner's series On Pointe.

A new portfolio by photographer Rhona Bitner features portraits of professional pointe shoes, unique as human fingerprints and heavily marked by use. yalereview.org/article/rhon...

Colombe Schneck's Object of Desire I gave my daughter the name my mother wanted—but who was her namesake?

“Who was Salomé and what had happened to her? What did she have to do with me?”

In our summer issue, Colombe Schneck uncovers the dark history of a family name.
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