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Read a conversation with Neige Sinno by us for @yalereview.bsky.social here: yalereview.org/article/shak...

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?” Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

"For all of Dorothy Parker’s quips about cocktails and Bukowski’s bromides about beer, Fitzgerald’s prose alcohol content remains unmatched." Amid a cultural turn to sobriety, Sloane Crosley rereads the original “poet inebriate.”

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?” Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

With alcohol consumption in America at historic lows, is the boozy-author archetype a thing of the past? For our Essay of the Week, Sloane Crosley traces how Fitzgerald endures as its brightest—and bleakest—example.

"Is there even such a thing as land? Fragmentation is our anthem."

— Robin Coste Lewis, “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis"

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad… Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

"I wanted the form, the sentences, the paragraphs to take the form of spirals, never reaching closure."

Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER, which was recently long listed for the National Book Award.

"I am red. Eros pulls me by the hand. More birds. Who is the sacrifice, my body or my mind?"

— Robin Coste Lewis, “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis"

The best new writing here—and there.

We've partnered with @grantamag.bsky.social to bring you a joint subscription deal. One year of the best writing from the U.K. and the U.S. for a special price.

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"Is there even such a thing as land? Fragmentation is our anthem."

From “’She Held A Dove Whose Tail Survives’: Self-Portrait as the Acropolis,” by Robin Coste Lewis, TYR's Poem of the Week:

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad… Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

"It is still very mysterious to me how someone crosses the threshold into evil."

From our new collaboration with Shakespeare and Company: an interview with Neige Sinno on her book SAD TIGER.

Final hours! Submissions close tonight at 11:59 PM ET.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad… Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

Thrilled to announce a dream collaboration dreamed up by me and Adam Biles: @yalereview.bsky.social + @shakespeareandcompany.com .Together, we’ll publish author conversations from the legendary Paris bookshop—beginning with Neige Sinno on her extraordinary Sad Tiger. yalereview.org/article/shak...

We’re so happy to be teaming up with The Yale Review to make some of our best in-store conversations available to read. The first instalment is with the brilliant Neige Sinno whose SAD TIGER is currently shortlisted for the National Book Award.

A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Neige Sinno on her memoir Sad… Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses form, memory, childhood sexual abuse, and the paradoxes of testimony with novelist and memoirist Neige…

We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with @shakespeareandcompany.com, the legendary Paris bookshop. TYR will publish select transcripts from the shop’s author events. The inaugural installment features Neige Sinno on SAD TIGER—and the paradoxes of story and memory.

Last call for submissions! 🚨 Send us your work by Tuesday, September 30 at 11:59 PM ET.

theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

"I stood though
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

Title poem from Glove Money is @yalereview.bsky.social poem of the week!

"I thought how erotic,
how could it be so erotic, how secret
that her necklace touches her, she wears the touch
in public."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

"I stood though
dumbstruck, not knowing, not knowing yet
that I am a hand and my sex
is a hand."

— Sophia Dahlin, "Glove Money":

We’re thrilled to see two TYR contributors—Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura—on the @thebookerprizes shortlist! 🎉

Read their latest work in our Summer 2025 issue: yalereview.org/issues/summe...

Submissions close one week from today! Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations by September 30. theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

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The best new writing here—and there.

This autumn, we've partnered with @grantamag.bsky.social to bring you a joint subscription deal. One year of the best writing from the U.K. and the U.S. for a special price.

Subscribe: subscribe.granta.com/store/produc...

Michelle Kohler: “To Die Is Different“ A poem by Michelle Kohler: “The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please, / put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

“The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please,
put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

— Michelle Kohler, "To Die Is Different" yalereview.org/article/kohl...

Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?” A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.

Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”

Michelle Kohler: “To Die Is Different“ A poem by Michelle Kohler: “The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please, / put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

"The kingdoms have no exiles.
They have, instead, coral noises that pique your curiosity."

— Michelle Kohler, "To Die Is Different": yalereview.org/article/kohl...

Katherine Dunn: “Process” A new story by Katherine Dunn: “The musty silence of his childhood bred in Joseph Jaikins a susceptibility to the propaganda of solitude.”

"A new idea crept into Joseph’s thoughts. It troubled him for weeks before he brought several small pots of paint home from the factory and set them on the table in front of the blank canvas."

From Katherine Dunn's "Process," new in TYR this week. yalereview.org/article/kath...

Adina Hoffman: “Cycladic Figurines and Their Mysteries” Adina Hoffman explores the enduring mystique of excavated Cycladic sculptures.

Truly a stunning essay by Adina Hoffman j. @yalereview.bsky.social

yalereview.org/article/hoff...

Windham Campbell Prizes We call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.

The Windham Campbell Festival begins today! 🎉 Come hear from our fall issue contributors in person this week. On Thursday & Friday morning, join TYR editors for coffee and casual conversation with these eight remarkable writers. Full schedule here: windhamcampbell.org/festivals/20...

“The clocks tick pink, then turn to horses. Please,
put my heart in the tunnel of your telescope while there’s time.”

From "To Die Is Different," by Michelle Kohler, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/kohl...

Rana Dasgupta: Trump Is Only a Symptom of a Deeper Problem This analysis of the changing American nation-state argues that Trump's presidency is a distraction from bigger problems.

Thank you @yalereview.bsky.social for providing revelatory analysis of the social system rather than redundant criticism of the individual operator. bit.ly/4nxrATk

Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead” Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond

”When AI Speaks for the Dead.“ Professor Patricia Williams‘ latest article for @yalereview.bsky.social examines the ethical complexities surrounding AI technology that recreates voices and personas of deceased individuals. yalereview.org/article/patr...