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December 7, 2023
In a Q&A, Sheriko discusses her lifelong affection for puppets, the varying styles of early puppets, and how her interest in old ways isn’t limited to puppets.
November 20, 2023
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 ...
November 17, 2023
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...
November 14, 2023
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...
November 6, 2023
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...
October 25, 2023
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...
October 18, 2023
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....