News

Selected stories from the Beinecke Library, YaleNews, and external media outlets (the latter noted by source in parentheses after title of article).

Classic documentary ‘The Cry of Jazz’ at Yale (Hartford Courant)
May 6, 2019
Really Fun: Tom Davis Papers Open for Research at the Beinecke Library
May 1, 2019

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library recently opened the Tom Davis Papers to research. It is an archive that was “really fun” to prepare for future...
Star power: Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Gloria Swanson, and Carole Lombard all happily posed for Jerome Zerbe’s photographs (Yale Alumni Magazine)
May 1, 2019
Meet the Manchester academic who has written an innovative new book exploring the relationship between Gothic architecture and literature (Visit Manchester)
April 30, 2019
Yale historian’s research, teaching gives students new window to an ancient world
April 29, 2019
Yale e Mark Twain, la Dickinson e Caravaggio. In New England lungo l’“autostrada della cultura” (La Stampa)
April 25, 2019
Students read original poetry at the Beinecke (Yale Daily News)
April 25, 2019
“Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art” (Yale Daily News)
April 23, 2019
How John Hersey Revealed the Horrors of the Atomic Bomb to the US (LitHub)
April 23, 2019
John Hersey and the Art of Fact (The New Yorker)
April 22, 2019
High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut (The Irish Times)
April 20, 2019
Rush on Punk - Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast no. 1
April 13, 2019

Our new visual podcast series takes you behind the scenes of the work, collections, and programs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To watch the...
Thornton Wilder, renowned writer and meticulous taxpayer
April 12, 2019
Biography Symposium Showcases Power of Beinecke Collections and Programs for the Enterprise of Creative Research
April 9, 2019

“I would not be a writer but for this place,” Emily Bernard ’89 ’98 Ph.D. said at a symposium on biography at the Beinecke Library on March 29, 2019. “I came...
Four of the Most Stunning Libraries Across the Country (Martha Stewart Living)
April 9, 2019
New Italian professor begins time at Yale with focus on endings
April 5, 2019
The Quest for the Perfect Text (Fine Books)
March 26, 2019
Nyberg: The ancient art of paper marbling (WTNH)
March 26, 2019
Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult (Hyperallergic)
March 23, 2019
St Catharine’s Junior Research Fellow discovers new medieval saint's Life (St Catharine's College Cambridge re. Osborn fb229)
March 21, 2019