“What’s in your cup?”
“How did you get here?”
“Describe one of the things in your cup as a chocolate dessert.”
These are a few questions that repeat throughout season one of the Yale docuseries, “Now, In Color,” a non-fictional exploration of the Black...
Experimental, narrative, and documentary films created at Yale and around the world will be featured Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14 at the Yale Student Film Festival (YSFF).
“The Yale Student Film Festival’s two main goals have always been to showcase the...
Out-going Yale College Council (YCC) president, Matthew Guido ’19, took the stage at Battell Chapel on April 19 to present Jodie Foster ’85 with the fourth annual Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was founded in 2015 by then YCC...
Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American urban housing projects of the mid-century. When Shaw...
In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator and now acting editor of the Yale Review, outlined an argument for creating a center...
120 years. It’s the length of the “reduced” sentence that Scott Lewis was handed by the Connecticut courts when he was convicted for murder in 1991. It’s also the title of a 2018 documentary about Lewis’ wrongful conviction and ultimate exoneration, made...
In 1726, a young Englishwoman named Mary Toft gave birth to 14 rabbits. Or so she claimed. A physical examination by an influential physician, who would go on to become the mentor of William Hunter — a founding father of obstetrics as well as the first...
Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov is best known today for his 1859 novel “Oblomov,” an inventive satire of the waning Russian nobility, embodied in its title character, who is so sedentary and slothful that “Oblomovism” is still synonymous with “laziness.”...