In a widely discussed and very disheartening New Yorker piece this spring, Nathan Heller reported on the state of the English major and found it wanting. Perhaps the most alarming moment in the long ...

The so-called death of the novel may not be a problem if, as Franco Moretti suggests, there are already too many novels – so many, that actually reading them doesn’t make sense. Mr. Moretti, a ...

Yale University's renowned English Language and Literature programs involve substantial annual costs. Undergraduate students ...