Writers at Work
12:00-1:00 P.M., HQ L02
What is art criticism?
Enjoy lunch with Lucy Sante, critic and memoirist, as she engages in conversation with TYR senior editor Dan Fox on the pleasures and challenges of writing about art.
Introduced by Joanna Fiduccia, assistant professor of history of art.
Ask Me Anything
9:00-10:00 A.M., HQ 276
How to become a critic
Enjoy coffee and breakfast with Joanna Biggs, TYR deputy editor, and Adam Dalva, TYR contributing editor and board member of the National Book Critics Circle, as they provide practical advice about working as a critic today. Bring your questions!
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “Street Talk”: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace on view in the Hanke Gallery of Sterling Memorial Library.
Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.
Onitsha Market Literature—named after a city east of the Niger River—emerged in the early 1950s. The popular pamphlet style soon spread to other centers throughout the then British colony of Nigeria. These ephemeral publications circulated widely throughout the busy marketplace, and writers intended them to be both educating and entertaining for the common people.
Keynote Reading and Reception
5:00–6:30 P.M., HQ L02/L90
Fiction’s mysteries
Novelists Jonathan Lethem and Catherine Lacey read from their work and discuss the role of fiction in an age of information—and misinformation—with Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
Reception to Follow
Generative Workshop: Fiction
3:30-4:30 P.M., HQ 134
Writing with the body
Where does a voice begin? Come prepared to write—and move—with novelist Catherine Lacey. Open to members of the Yale community, with preference given to Yale students.
RSVP required.
Artists at Work
12:00-1:00 P.M., HQ 134
How do artists make things?
Enjoy lunch with award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem and photographer and longtime collaborator Gregory Crewdson as they talk about making art together and apart. Moderated by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
Part of The Yale Review Festival 2025.
Franke Visiting Fellows
Jennifer Makumbi introduces her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulon: The Lions Return, followed by a reading and discussion.
Civilizations are living things: they are born, they grow and die. Nations too, rise and fall. Europe and its spawned nations are declining. Africa cannot afford to stumble into global power as if drunk.
Women have been active in science since the earliest formal scientific inquiry, often acting as assistants to their fathers, brothers, or husbands, but how we talk about women in science — and their work — started to change after the Renaissance. Join us for a pop-up exhibit celebrating groundbreaking scientists from a variety of fields, including astronomy, physics, geology, and life sciences, both in the wider scientific community and at Yale.
Featured scientists include:
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) was Louis Kahn’s last project and a landmark building for Yale. The exhibition “People Look Up at Good Architecture” examines Kahn’s innovative use of natural light and complex skylight system.
