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Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?” Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie

This week, you may find yourself around at least one self-proclaimed “foodie.” @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what, if anything, that word still means. yalereview.org/article/alic...

Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?” Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie

"Being a foodie is no longer about experience and knowledge. Documentation is in; expertise is out, even if we can all cite Bourdain explaining that Sichuan food with Coke is the best way to cure a hangover." @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social @yalereview.bsky.social

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

Democracy, empire, technology, and myth: from the American founding to fascism and the Cold War, we've gathered essays from our archives that trace how freedom falters—and how it might be reclaimed. #FallofFreedom

Thomas Mann: “Germany and the Germans” An essay by Thomas Mann: “As a young man, I thought and said that, once having been born into the world, it was a good and honorable thing to persevere .…

"There are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one," Thomas Mann wrote in 1946, "but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning." #FallofFreedom

Miriam is so brilliant, and this conversation shows why…

"In Those Years" by Adrienne Rich, from the Spring 1992 issue of The Yale Review.
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Leon Trotsky: “Hitler's National Socialism” A Leon Trotsky essay from TYR ’s archives: “At the start of his political career, Hitler stood out perhaps only because of his big temperament, a voice…

Leon Trotsky’s analysis of fascism, published in the Winter 1933 issue of The Yale Review: an account of how economic crisis, parliamentary chaos, and social despair hardened into dictatorship. #FallofFreedom

TYR is proud to participate in #FallOfFreedom, a nationwide cultural movement uniting artists, institutions, and communities in celebration of creative expression & solidarity. We've gathered pieces from our archives that examine authoritarianism & cultural resistance. yalereview.org/fall-of-free...

This is exactly the work of criticism that I love. Taking both the lyric & the critique of it seriously, while also noticing the emotional resonance that writing can have and valuing that too. By Maggie Millner for @yalereview.bsky.social

Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing? longreads.com/2025/09/03/i...

Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?” Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie

“For more than forty years, the word foodie has functioned as an inescapable shorthand for ‘someone who cares about food,’ writes Alicia Kennedy. But the “shape that care takes is the real question.” yalereview.org/article/alic...

Samuel Cheney: “Literal Country Music” A poem by Samuel Cheney: “Afterwards we got snow cones / and sat on the curb.”

"Literal country music
warbled from truck speakers.
Images of the prophets hung inside."

— Samuel Cheney, "Literal Country Music," TYR’s Poem of the Week

Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?” Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie

The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...

"Preparing, serving, and eating food is now too often only a prelude to posting," writes Alicia Kennedy. How might we find our way back to the depth and seriousness the foodie once represented?

A Shakespeare and Company Interview with Miriam Toews Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks with Canadian writer Miriam Toews about memoir, meaning-making, and what motivates the desire to give shape to…

"When I’ve finished a book, it’s like, 'Okay, good. That’s done. That’s over. Get it away from me.'"

A Shakespare and Company interview with Miriam Toews:

Our winter issue arrives soon! Preorder your copy now: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...

Alicia Kennedy: “Who Was the Foodie?” Alicia Kennedy on Ruby Tandoh’s All Consuming , Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now , and the evolution of the foodie

Who was the "foodie"? A word that once signaled knowledge and experience now means almost nothing at all. In our Essay of the Week, @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social asks what it would mean to take taste seriously again. yalereview.org/article/alic...

Monica Ferrell: “Private Property” A poem by Monica Ferrell: “The rain was rough / The ice was worse”

“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”

— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”

And published simultaneously on our podcast: pod.fo/e/351d57

A Shakespeare and Company Interview with Miriam Toews Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks with Canadian writer Miriam Toews about memoir, meaning-making, and what motivates the desire to give shape to…

For the second installment of our @shakespeareandcompany.com series—in which we bring you transcripts of interviews conducted at the legendary Paris bookshop—Miriam Toews speaks with Adam Biles on how writing resembles loss. yalereview.org/article/shak...

“The way a poem stirs
In an alphabet,
Where already desire and nostalgia

Are starting to spin”

— Monica Ferrell, “Private Property”

We are saddened to hear of the death of Kai T. Erikson, a distinguished sociologist and former editor of The Yale Review. Penelope Laurans—former associate editor of TYR—offers a remembrance of Erikson's life and work. news.yale.edu/2025/11/11/k...

“This is my house, my dirt
Where the grapes are beginning to stir
With their ideas of the future”

From "Private Property" by Monica Ferrell, TYR’s Poem of the Week:

Our Winter 2025 issue—featuring Lucian Freud’s Still Life with Green Lemon on the cover—arrives next month. Inside: nine poets on psychoanalysis, a new story by Nathan Englander, and essays by Anahid Nersessian and Rachel Cohen. Preorder now to reserve your copy: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...

Claire Bond Potter: “The Book That Changed How We Think About Rape” Claire Bond Potter on Susan Brownmiller’s landmark 1975 book, Against Our Will , fifty years later.

Fifty years after AGAINST OUR WILL brought rape into public conversation, Claire Bond Potter traces the book’s complicated legacy—and what remains of its lessons. yalereview.org/article/clai...

Our Winter 2025 issue—featuring Lucian Freud’s Still Life with Green Lemon on the cover—arrives next month. Inside: nine poets on psychoanalysis, a new story by Nathan Englander, and essays by Anahid Nersessian and Rachel Cohen. Preorder now to reserve your copy: shop.yalereview.org/products/win...

In our Essay of the Week, Claire Bond Potter revisits AGAINST OUR WILL, a landmark book that changed the way we talk about rape. Fifty years later, what of its lessons endure? yalereview.org/article/clai...

Chase Twichell: “Uh-oh, Uh-oh” A poem by Chase Twichell: “What bird says uh-oh, uh-oh? / Some kind of crow. // I used to know its name. / Whole flocks of names have flown”

"What part of the mind studies
its own lapses and eclipses,

its habit of blocking one memory
with another, or the holes it makes"

—Chase Twichell, "Uh-oh, Uh-oh," TYR's Poem of the Week
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What “After the Hunt” Gets Right Annie Julia Wyman, the writer of The Chair , on Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt.

"At its most interesting, AFTER THE HUNT is a marvelously acted old-fashioned thing about rippingly flawed people and their pain."

Rachel Jamison Webster: “An Incomplete Mentorship” Rachel Jamison Webster remembers her time with the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.

How do you mourn a literary mentor who shaped you—and also failed you?