After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle East. His only surviving maps — two made in Egypt and...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, a new novel casts a man with a stutter in the lead role, a digital project helps readers visualize the legacy of plantation in the Caribbean, and an astronomy-...
The Windham-Campbell Prizes’ annual literary festival returns to campus Sept. 19 to Sept. 22 with a special lineup of events to mark its 10th anniversary, including a keynote address by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
The eight...