Arts & Culture

Jane Greenwood, Broadway's most prolific designer, turns cloth into character.

Aldo Parisot was one of Yale's most famous musicians. He was also, possibly, its most idiosyncratic personality.

Imani Perry reviews David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass; an alumna's novel about a marriage gone wrong.

The Beinecke gets David Sedaris's papers, including his instructions on elfing.

Lamin Sanneh studied Islam, Christianity, and the dialogue between the two.

Object lesson: A nineteenth-century Yale surgeon commissioned portraits of tumor patients.