Benjamin Schwarz, a Yale alumnus who was the literary and national editor for the Atlantic from 2000 to early 2013, has been appointed as consulting editor at the Yale University Press. Based in Los Angeles, he will acquire books in the areas of history,...
“For a long time, I used to go to bed early” — so begins “Swann’s Way,” the first volume in Marcel Proust’s “À la recherche du temps perdu” (“In Search of Lost Time,” also known as “Remembrance of Things Past”).Some of the writer’s fans will be staying up...
Joseph H. BrittonJoseph H. Britton, recently reappointed as the J.L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Pastoral Theology, is the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and a scholar on piety as the synthesis...
“Africa 360: a panoramic perspective of the continent” is the theme of this year’s Africa Week, Nov. 11–17, sponsored by the Yale African Students Association (YASA).The entirely student-run program is aimed at raising awareness of topical issues...
Poet, novelist, philosopher, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer Wendell Berry will present the next Chubb Fellowship Lecture as a guest of Timothy Dwight College and the Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP).(Photo by Guy Mendes)Berry will...