Mighty Casey gets his happy ending
Not 20 years after Casey’s infamous strikeout at home plate, sportswriter Grantland Rice attempted to redeem the humbled batter. In 1906 he...
The English Department is delighted to report that Anthony Reed’s book, Freedom Time, has been selected for Yale’s Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize, founded to...
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Louise Glück has won the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The Academy describes the history of...
“In his research, Yale English Professor David Bromwich writes about modern and Romantic poetry as well as the history of literary criticism. He has also taught an...
May 27, 2015
How the Irish Became the World’s Leading Gay Activists; Defying conventional wisdom, the huge win by the Yes Equality campaign involved young and old,...
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime is described by Bloom as “about the dozen creators who have formed the American Sublime… . These writers...
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Ind., and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale University and writing at Cornell University, and worked for...
