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.”...
A dozen volumes on display at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are shelved side-by-side with their fore edges, not their spines, facing out. It is not a case of curatorial malpractice — far from it. Those exposed fore edges form a gallery...
Yale University today announced the 2019 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their work.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, ...
To understand modern Chinese science fiction, argues scholar Mingwei Song, one must grapple with different forms of invisibility.
Song, an associate professor of Chinese at Wellesley College, visited Yale on March 4 to deliver a Kemp Fund Lecture on “The...