The Yale Review

2 weeks ago | yalereview.org | Jennifer Krasinski

Jennifer Krasinski The mind is a supple, ever-changing thing. This is a fact, not a flaw. For the 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. In a 1926 essay called “Composition as Explanation,” Gertrude Stein wrote: “Continuous present is one thing and beginning again and again is another thing. These are both things.

2 weeks ago | yalereview.org | Susan Choi

Susan Choi What i always say is that I wasn’t a very good checker. I don’t mean I made mistakes—mistakes being, in fact-checking, failing to catch someone else’s mistakes. I mean that the things I checked weren’t serious or difficult, that generally, the bar was pretty low. This was at Tina Brown’s New Yorker in the mid-1990s, a time when the magazine was trying to raise its own heart rate. The idea was to make headlines, not just cultural history.

2 weeks ago | yalereview.org | Sarah Bernstein

Sarah Bernstein who does a death belong to? They will say: To whom, to whom does a death belong. To be corrected so early, my words wrong, my understanding wrong, my telling of the past—well. Let me tell you something. It is not me (not I) who needs forgiveness, and moreover I grant none of it. I forgive nobody. On the disputed issues of fact that may or must arise: for what limited, if indeed any, relevance it may have, I favor my own position. To whom does a death belong?

3 weeks ago | yalereview.org | Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li my first conversation with Edmund White, in retrospect, was a perfect example of every conversation we would have when we became friends. It happened in 2016, in his Princeton office, which would later become mine. Soon, he would be retiring and I would be teaching at Princeton, and he often joked that I had been hired as his successor.

1 month ago | yalereview.org | James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki this is a pivotal moment for American capitalism. Even though GDP and household incomes have grown steadily in this century, most Americans say they feel dissatisfied with the state of the economy and believe that the country’s economic future will be worse than its past.