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The Ferrante Letters
February 28, 2020
The Yale Book Store will host a book launch event for The Ferrante Letters Monday, March 23 at 6:00pm. Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s...
Promiscuous Knowledge
February 27, 2020
Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine...
January 27, 2020
First year graduate student Colton Valentine wins Leon Edel prize for best Henry James essay. His essay is “Not Noticing, Infallibly: The Critical Liaisons of Henry James,...
December 9, 2019
Heather Cass White, Yale BA English Major ‘92, wins the Biennial MLA Prize for Scholary Editions for New Collected Poems: Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)...
December 5, 2019
Congratulations to Yale alums Kamran Javadizadeh and Edgar Garcia!  The Modern Language Association of America today announced the winner of its fifty-sixth annual William...
November 26, 2019
Lily Moore-Eissenberg, from Harvard, Massachusetts, is completing double majors in English and Philosophy. As a writer and philosopher, her work centers on analyzing the...
November 22, 2019
Ashley James has been named associate curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum, making her the first black curator to work at the museum full-time. James, who...