Modern Books and Manuscripts

The collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts covers a wide range of subjects with strengthsin literature written in English outside the United States; American children's literature; the printing arts; LGBTQ writing; human sexuality and gender studies; playing cards;the history of hunting and fishing;and the history of finance.

The Polymathic Mind of John Ruskin (Hyperallergic)
November 30, 2019
If Walt Whitman, whose bicentenary all New York has been celebrating, can come across as absolutely contemporary — a big-bearded hipster tipping back Pabst Blue Ribbons and spouting poetry in some Brooklyn dive bar — John Ruskin, also 200 this year, seems stubbornly and remotely Victorian. The Yale Center for British Art’s Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin aims to assert Ruskin’s contemporary relevance while firmly retaining his 19th-century context.
French feminist works on display at Beinecke (Yale Daily News)
October 31, 2019
An exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library features the papers of Monique Wittig, a radical French author and feminist thinker.
Yale hosts Windham-Campbell Festival (Yale Daily News)
September 26, 2019
A Ravel song turns up at Yale (Slipped Disc)
September 23, 2019
New Research From Beinecke Collections
September 14, 2019
Recent books based on research in Beinecke Library collections
Poet Wayne Koestenbaum’s archive ‘a memory lane of mental calories spent’
September 11, 2019
Over the course of a varied and prolific career, Wayne Koestenbaum has published poetry collections, volumes of cultural criticism, novels, and a libretto. Two years ago, he plunged into an entirely different sort of project, one that involved managing Excel spreadsheets and contemplating his unpublished work.
Stonewall, Before and After: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (Los Angeles Review of Books)
July 6, 2019
These Queer PhotoBooks Changed My Life (aperture)
June 27, 2019
Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.
Nyberg: Michael Childers, world renowned celebrity portrait photographer (WTNH)
June 13, 2019
Paparazzi learned from this guy; Beinecke displays Jerome Zerbe exhibit (New Haven Register)
May 31, 2019
Jerome Zerbe has been called the first paparazzo, but don’t think of him in the modern sense, says Timothy Young, curator of modern books at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on Wall Street in New Haven.