A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading.
Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In ...
April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart—and both, it...
Four Yale College seniors who have both excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to social impact are among 62 students from across the world to receive 2024...
At an unprecedented rate, loneliness is moving around the globe—from self-isolating technology and political division to community decay and social fragmentation—and yet it...
We mourn the death of Louise Glück—poet, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University—with a look back at...
Modern thought begins in doubt. René Descartes decided to doubt everything, even his own existence, before he hit bedrock: If doubting is going on, there must be a doubter....
Emily Skillings is a recipient of the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts for a poetry fellowship.
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the recipients and...