Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...

On Wednesday evening, poets Fatimah Asghar and Danez Smith discussed their experiences expressing themselves through poetry and finding solace in each other’s work. The poets gave individual readings ...

Since becoming editor of The Yale Review in July, Meghan O’Rourke ’97 has been reimagining the quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism for the digital age. A former editor at ...

Yale University Press announced today that it had received a “very significant” (but unspecified) gift to establish a new series dedicated to foreign literatures in translation. The Cecile and ...

Harold Bloom ‘51, an English professor at Yale University and literary critic, died at the age of 89 on Oct. 14 in New Haven. He taught his last class at Yale University on Oct. 10. Born in East Bronx ...

On Oct. 8, Louise Glück, Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale and adjunct English professor, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Norwegian Nobel Committee described Glück’s poetic voice ...

Eugene Victor Rostow of New Haven, Yale sophomore and winner of the highest freshman award last year in addition to many other scholastic honors, has been awarded the prize offered by the Harkness ...

With The Western Canon, Yale-based critical eminence Bloom tapped into a strain of the cultural zeitgeist looking for authoritative takes on what to read. Bloom here follows up with 6–10 pages each on ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Norman Holmes Pearson in an undated photo from the 1960s. Norman Holmes Pearson was far from the only college professor to practice espionage for the U.S. government during and after World War II. But ...