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Support our commitment to print.

Subscribe to the oldest “little magazine” in America and get four beautiful issues featuring the best literature of our time, alongside incisive criticism and essays, delivered to your doorstep each year. As a Sustaining Subscriber, you’ll also receive two special objects: our limited-edition Street Haunting in Winter candle—created in homage to a 1927 Virginia Woolf essay from our archives—and our classic mini tote in black.

As with all of our subscriptions, you’ll be the first to receive—and read—our new issues before we publish them online.

Print matters to us. We believe that print culture is a site of resistance, a place where urgent conversations need not be rushed and minds can engage deeply with one another on the page. The Sustaining Subscription offers a way to support this work at a deeper level, helping us commission new writing, nurture emerging voices, and maintain our tradition of rigorous, imaginative editorial publishing.

What your Sustaining Subscription includes

• Four print issues of TYR per year
• Limited-edition Street Haunting in Winter candle, inspired by Virginia Woolf
• Classic mini tote in black, designed as a companion to the print magazine

Great questions endure. It’s the answers that change.

Throughout our 200-year history, we’ve been privileged to publish both established names and rising literary voices, including Virginia Woolf, Robert Lowell, Thomas Mann, Bayard Rustin, Louise Glück, Adrienne Rich, José Ortega y Gasset, Joyce Carol Oates, James Merrill, Cathy Park Hong, Sheila Heti, Brandon Taylor, Garth Greenwell, and Namwali Serpell, among many others.

Committed to cross-disciplinary exchange and the dynamic conversation of ideas, The Yale Review continues to build a literary community defined by curiosity, clarity, and care. The Sustaining Subscription helps us continue this work—supporting the writers and editors who make each issue possible.