Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
Visitors to the Yale University Art Gallery ponder and enjoy the more than 4,000 works on display, but as is the case at many museums, the objects on view represent a small portion of the gallery’s holdings.
Out of necessity, tens of thousands of art...
A study of two travellers in the Near East at the dawn of the 20th century; a retrospective of a pioneering Yale sociologist murdered in Indonesia; an examination of public housing in New Haven; and a story of three generations of an African-American...
Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of medieval English manuscripts awaited them.
Hurley and...