During the pandemic lockdown, Yale’s Ayesha Ramachandran tried an experiment in poetry consumption.
Ramachandran, an associate professor of comparative literature, bought stacks of books of contemporary poetry and committed to reading a volume a night....
“Beauty is in the Street” declares a poster of a young woman, rendered in red against a white backdrop, hurling a brick into the air.
The publishers of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays had to come up with a sales marketing strategy — or what passed for one in 1623.
Just a few decades ago, every residential college at Yale College housed its own traditional printing press as a service to students. Although most of those presses have disappeared in the face of digital technologies and graphic design software, there...
Four Yale alumni — the legal scholar Tendayi Achiume ’05, ’08 J.D.; incarceration law scholar Andrea Armstrong ’07 J.D.; democracy advocate Ian Bassin ’06 J.D.; and the scholar and writer Imani Perry ’94 — are among 20 recipients of 2023 MacArthur...
Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio asked the tour guide for the Cherokee word for “hello.”...
