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What’s in your handbag? Maybe, Audrey Wollen writes, it’s an alternative history of human evolution. Her essay “A Unified Theory of the Handbag,” from our Spring 2025 Issue, is in Best American Essays 2026.
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“There was a list of things Alex swore he’d tend to before the baby arrived.” Nathan Englander’s “What Are We Doing, What Have We Done,” a story from our Winter 2025 Issue, is in Best American Short Stories 2026.
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“Words roll out of my brain and appear on my children’s tongues.” A short story by Samantha Hunt, one of three from TYR in Best American Short Stories 2026.
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“When you’re serving the upper crust, the idolized, and the glitterati, you expect a certain level of bad behavior.” Sigrid Nunez’s “The Rabbit’s Foot,” a story from our Summer 2025 Issue, is in Best American Short Stories 2026.
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Congratulations to Sigrid Nunez, Nathan Englander, Samantha Hunt, Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell, and Audrey Wollen! Their work from TYR is in Best American Short Stories 2026, the 2026 O. Henry Prize stories, and Best American Essays 2026. 🎉
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"How easy it would have been
to lose track of each other all at once
in that gray moment rather than
over years and with great indifference,
which is what happened in our actual lives."
—Jackson Holbert, "Definite Weather" yalereview.org/article/jacks…
"Since there were always clouds above us
in that town I will assume there were
clouds above us then too, though
you are correct, of course, that the things I assume
have often betrayed me."
"Definite Weather" by Jackson Holbert, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/jacks…
“When I felt a story rounding off, I took a piece out, because I really want readers to finish it themselves.”
Guadalupe Nettel on resisting resolution, in the latest installment of our partnership with Shakespeare and Company.
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“Mothers can be savages. And they never let you go.”
Guadalupe Nettel on family, the uncanny, and "The Accidentals," in the latest installment of our Shakespeare and Company interviews.
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With the midterms approaching, read Walter Lippmann on the run-up to the 1932 election—a nation in the midst of economic and political crisis, after twelve years of Republican rule. Newly digitized from our Summer 1932 issue: yalereview.org/article/a-rec…
"Shapes we were yet forming—a nest of fingers, a metal
emerging solid, cold, and a smoky
oval blown, as I wished I knew
how, when practicing
as a child, from an effortless mouth."
—Kelly Hoffer, "on one knee" yalereview.org/article/kelly…
"I slept hot that first night, as I had been already
in the throes of a celebration and taken that celebration
out to drink."
"on one knee" by Kelly Hoffer, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/kelly…
Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature! In our Summer 1991 Issue, we published a selection of her "Short Talks."
Revisit them here:
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"He meets various shades she’s bound herself not to see.
He tries to tell her the other women’s plain-jane jobs
so she’ll know they’re just like her."
—Laura Kolbe, "[He meets various shades...]" yalereview.org/article/laura…
"I saw the body at the outer edge of its intelligence… I saw transcendence that read like autonomy, queenliness that could be tradition. I saw freedom." Joanna Biggs on watching Mira Nadon dance Balanchine’s "Symphony in C."
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"It now dawns on the botanist that without his specimens it is as if he has never stepped foot in Surinam, never even left Europe, simply loitered for years in the big busy port city."
—Adam Ehrlich Sachs, "The Flora of Surinam"
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"It is Tuesday, and at the behest
of her mother, I have chosen again
to love her down"
—Joseph Earl Thomas, "Dreaming in Panini" yalereview.org/article/josep…
The first retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work in twenty-five years is up at Artists Space in New York until November 21. Revisit our folio on "Dictee," with five writers and artists on Cha and her influence.
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On our Substack, Joanna Biggs talks about her piece on ballet in our fall issue—the dancers she is watching now, what writers might learn from the body, and how to see ballet on a budget.
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"My baby’s booty is nothing like the sun,
for one, it is soft."
"Dreaming in Panini" by Joseph Earl Thomas, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/josep…