A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
The Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be given to Lily Padilla for her play “How to Defend Yourself.”
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...
As works of art age, their component materials can change in ways that signal maturity, history, and authenticity, said Paul Whitmore, a research scientist at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) at Yale’s West Campus.
But...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
