News

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

Painted Renaissance volumes on view at Yale’s Beinecke Library
March 14, 2019
Eight writers awarded Yale’s Windham-Campbell Prizes
March 13, 2019
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada); in nonfiction, Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States); in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States); in drama, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia).
NEW ACQUISITION: Tom Carey Papers
March 12, 2019
The recently-acquired papers of poet Tom Carey are open for research
“Pinball Wizard: The Work and Life of Jacqueline de Jong” at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (BLOUIN ARTINFO)
March 11, 2019
Redesign of Beinecke Library Website
March 7, 2019
Beinecke Library pop-up exhibit celebrates “A Raisin in the Sun” at 60
March 5, 2019

The Beinecke Library celebrates the 60th anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry’s monumental play A Raisin in the Sun with a temporary display of materials on the...
Artist Matthew Barney’s latest work enriched by Yale experience
March 1, 2019
New rotation to open in YUAG Asian art gallery (Yale Daily News)
February 28, 2019
New Music compositions to premiere in Beinecke (Yale Daily News)
February 28, 2019
Cave Canem Visits Beinecke Library at Yale University (Cave Canem website)
February 28, 2019
Venture Smith: A Slave Who Bought His Own Freedom (NBC Connecticut)
February 25, 2019
Meet the men living deep in the Ozarks, away from the fray (Washington Post)
February 22, 2019
Welcome to the Refreshed and Renewed Beinecke Library Website!
February 21, 2019

Thank you for visiting the Beinecke Library online! In 2015, the library celebrated the opening of new state-of-the-art facilities for Technical Services at...
Beinecke Library Curators Ray Clemens and Diane Ducharme discuss Bibliomania (WPKN Radio)
February 19, 2019
Dialogue: Hilton Als and Thelma Golden Discuss James Baldwin (David Zwirner Podcast)
February 14, 2019
Live from London: the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prizes (March 13!
February 12, 2019
A Fourth of July history class (Meriden Record Journal)
February 7, 2019
The Handy Playing Cards That Taught 17th-Century Cooks to Carve Meat Like a Pro (Atlas Obscura)
February 6, 2019
Quanta Magazine: An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita
February 4, 2019
Beinecke presents “Bibliomania” exhibit (Yale Daily News)
January 31, 2019