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July 8, 2024
An epiphany isn’t always heralded by trumpets or bolts of lightning. I once had a flash of clarity while unlocking my bike: As if I had also unlocked my mind, I suddenly knew...
July 8, 2024
One day in the mid-1940s, in the quiet French city of Poitiers, the Surrealist painter André Masson was invited by his doctor to take a look at a curious medical specimen:...
May 29, 2024
Congratulations to this year’s winners of the the Wallace Prize for Fiction! First Place: “Camouflage” by Maude Lechner ’24 Second Place: “Deliverance” by Adriana...
May 28, 2024
We’re almost halfway through 2024 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there...
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May 28, 2024
Heartiest congratulations to the English Department Prize winners for 2023-2024!
May 22, 2024
Cynthia Zarin, Senior Lecturer in English in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sits down with Yale Today’s Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud to discuss writing Inverno and the...
May 6, 2024
Awarded to Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker for a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often...