Brian Walker on WNTH 8 for Doonesbury
Brian Walker appears on WNTH 8’s Connecticut Style today to talk more about his new book, Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau. http://www.wtnh.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=5718
Tuesday Studio: Kurt Schwitters
Even for those who speak German, the word Merz may be difficult to translate. Coined in 1919 by the avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Merz is more of an idea than an object; more of an approach to art than art itself. A truncated version of the German word for
Tocqueville in America
A few weeks ago, we celebrated Columbus Day and the discovery of America. Or at least he made the physical discovery, and even that is contested. What other Americas were there to discover? One might say: the political discovery of the American Republic’s early successes. Alexis de Tocqueville and his
Tuesday (Cartoonist’s) Studio: Doonesbury and Yale
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the popular Doonesbury comic strip, first published in 1970 by Garry Trudeau. Doonesbury’s origins lie in Trudeau’s undergraduate strip, Bull Tales, for the Yale Daily News. Trudeau first published Doonesbury shortly after graduating Yale College, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Record, and
Hédi Kaddour at Whitney Humanities Center, Yale
More from YUP’s translated poets: Next Wednesday, October 27, the French poet Hédi Kaddour will be at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center to read from his book, Treason, translated by Marilyn Hacker and published earlier this spring. Kaddour is an acclaimed poet and novelist in France, winner of the Prix du
Adonis in New York and New Haven
Not one, but two, important literary events are on the horizon: Adonis, the esteemed Syrian poet, will be in New York on Monday, October 25 at the 92nd Street Y and at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center on Tuesday, October 26; both are readings from his newly published book, Adonis: Selected
The Anthology of Rap Trailer!
Is this awesome or what? The long-awaited trailer for The Anthology of Rap, edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, is finally here. By bringing together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the “old school” to the “golden age” to the present day, the book doubles
Tuesday Studio: The Private Paradise of the Qianlong Emperor
Perhaps the most famous imperial garden in the Western imagination is that of the thirteenth-century Mongol emperor and founder of the Chinese Yuan dynasty, Khubilai Khan. Immortalized by the vivid and haunting poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “Kubla Khan,” Khan’s garden is an elaborate synthesis of natural and manmade
Are the Humanities Slipping Away?
In a piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education, Frank Donoghue writes about the decline in humanities majors, a decline which is also paired with an increase in for-profit and two-year colleges. He concludes that while humanities may lose their footing in the world of college and university, their place
Tuesday Studio: The Late Works of Salvador Dalí
“The intelligent painters,” Salvador Dalí proclaimed in 1964, “are those who will be able to integrate into classicism even the wildest experiments, the most disordered and chaotic of our time…My ambition is to incorporate, to sublimate my experiments into the great classical tradition.” Although most celebrated for his abstract and