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Our Favorite Cultural Artifacts of 2025

Our editors and staff on their most meaningful cultural encounters this year
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Behind the Essay: Anahid Nersessian
On divorce and writing ambivalence
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When Is a Story Finished?
Clare Sestanovich on Katherine Dunn's "Process" and our obsession with endings
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Behind the Essay: Audrey Wollen
On feminism, writing from the underglow, and taking the scenic route
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Rec Letter: The Books That Help Us Write
The Yale Review editors share the books that have shaped how they think on the page
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Notes on Note-Taking
Joanna Biggs reflects on Joan Didion’s notes—and offers a prompt for your own
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Behind the Essay: Garth Greenwell
Writing about morality, sex, and discomfort—plus a few words of advice
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Rec Letter: Edmund White (1940–2025)
A tribute—and reading list—from the editors of The Yale Review
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A First Look at Our Summer Issue
Our Summer Fiction Issue is coming soon—with new work by Rachel Cusk, Bryan Washington, and more. Plus: a writing prompt and seven first lines.
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Welcome to "Back Matter"
A new companion to America’s oldest "little" magazine
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