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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
March 24, 2022
Last week, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke ’97 made the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction. O’Rourke is editor of...
Two English Girls (1971)
March 23, 2022
Films at the Whitney is ramping back up after two long years away. On March 3, 2022, the screening room in the lower level of the Humanities Quadrangle—affectionately known...
March 18, 2022
What happens when we think of the desert not as a margin, but as a center and a focus of study? Jill Jarvis from the Department of French discusses the genesis of “Desert...
Tyler Stovall
December 13, 2021
The Whitney Humanities Center mourns the death of our friend and colleague Tyler Stovall (1954­–2021). Historian of France and the Francophone world, former president of the...
July 14, 2021
Hernan Diaz’s Finzi-Contini Lecture, “The Heart of Fiction,” has been published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Yale Review. We look forward to our ongoing partnership...
THE TEACHING ARCHIVE
April 23, 2021
Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) and Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida) are the authors of a new book, The Teaching Archive (University of Chicago Press,...
“The Heart of Fiction" is now available for viewing
April 15, 2021
Why dwell on made-up stories? Why make them up in the first place? Can fiction, that pack of lies, aspire to some form of truth? These are just a few of the provocative...