“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...
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,...
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Nov. 16 for Yale poet and scholar John Hollander, who died on Aug. 17 at age 83.The service will take place at 3 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. It will be followed by a reception in...
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William J. Foltz, the H.J. Heinz Professor Emeritus of African studies and political science at Yale University, died on Oct. 27 at his home in New Haven.William J. FoltzFrom 1983 to 1989, Foltz was also the director of the Yale Center for International...
Dr. Frankenstein mashed up body parts. Modern researchers mash up data.Cover of the seventh Cologne edition of the “Malleus Maleficarum,” 1520, The University of Sydney, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.On Halloween (Thursday, Oct. 31) the Center for Science...