Peter Weir: …as directed, was the masterful The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). The drama was set in Indonesia around the time of the overthrow of President Sukarno and starred Gibson and Linda Hunt.

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …reading of political events in The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) and Highways to a War (1995) and the shadowy otherness of Tasmania in The Doubleman (1985) and Out of Ireland (1999). Likewise, Shirley Hazzard wrote with great seriousness of purpose in her modern tragedy The Transit of Venus (1980),…

Vanessa Redgrave: Movies from the 21st century: … and subsequently starred onstage in The Year of Magical Thinking, which was adapted from Joan Didion’s memoir of the same name, and Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy. The two plays earned her Tony nominations in 2007 and 2011, respectively. As she entered her 70s, she appeared in the film dramas…

Joan Didion: Journalism, Play It as It Lays, screenplays, and memoirs: …death in 2003, she wrote The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she recounts their marriage and mourns her loss. The memoir won a National Book Award, and Didion adapted it for the stage in 2007. Alongside Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, it is one of her…

José Saramago: …morte de Ricardo Reis (1984; The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis), juxtaposes the romantic involvements of its narrator, a poet-physician who returns to Portugal at the start of the Salazar dictatorship, with long dialogues that examine human nature as revealed in Portuguese history and culture.

Mike White: Directing debut, The Amazing Race, and Enlightened: …directed his first feature film, Year of the Dog, which stars Molly Shannon as a woman who tries to find meaning and fulfillment in animal rescue after her pet dies. White also wrote and produced the film. It was notable for its portrait of eccentricity and grief and was a…

Margaret Atwood: Novels: …from their own perspectives in The Year of the Flood (2009). MaddAddam (2013), which continues to pluck at the biblical, eschatological, and anticorporate threads running through the two previous novels, brings the satirical trilogy to a denouement. The Heart Goes Last (2015), originally published as a serial e-book

David Malouf: Malouf’s volumes of poetry include Bicycle and Other Poems (1970; also published as The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems), Neighbours in a Thicket (1974), Wild Lemons (1980), First Things Last (1980), Typewriter Music (2007), Earth Hour (2014), and An Open Book

Jim Jarmusch: …own take on the western; Year of the Horse (1997), a rock concert documentary of Neil Young and Crazy Horse; and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) consists of a collection of brief exchanges between various well-known actors and musicians as they smoked and…

Suzanne Collins: …McButton Lost Power (2005) and Year of the Jungle: Memories from the Home Front (2013).

Patti Smith: Memoirs and other literary ventures: …coffee and detective shows, and Year of the Monkey (2019), which includes some of her photographs and reflections on death and aging.

February 8, 2016, begins the Year of the Monkey according to the Chinese calendar. Chinese New Year celebrations last 15 days and include a variety of traditions that are meant to bring luck and happiness for the new year. Families hold reunions, small gifts are exchanged, and special foods are

According to the Chinese calendar, January 28, 2017, begins the Year of the Rooster. Chinese New Year celebrations last 15 days and include a variety of traditions that are meant to bring luck and happiness for the new year. Families hold reunions; small gifts are exchanged; and special foods are

Michael Cera: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and This Is the End: …Jack Black in Harold Ramis’s Year One, a comedy about Paleolithic buddies.

Nine Inch Nails: The concept album Year Zero (2007) was accompanied by an ambitious viral marketing campaign, and instrumental samples used in its creation were collected in Ghosts I–IV (2008). Having become dissatisfied with the traditional music-distribution model, Reznor released both Ghosts I–IV and the song-oriented The Slip (2008) as free…

Magnus Hirschfeld: In 1899 he started the Yearbook of Intermediate Sexual Types, the first journal in the world to deal with sexual variants; it was regularly published until 1923. He also published an important study on cross-dressing, The Transvestites (1910). Hirschfeld was one of the founders of the Medical Society for Sexual…

United States: Virginia: …new governor of Virginia, Sir George Yeardley, issued a call for the election of representatives to a House of Burgesses, which was to convene in Jamestown in July 1619. In its original form the House of Burgesses was little more than an agency of the governing board of the Virginia…

lamb: …months old may be called yearling mutton or hogget. The meat of sheep 6 to 10 weeks old is usually sold as baby lamb, and spring lamb is from sheep of age five to six months.

The Yearling, novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in 1938 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Set in the backwoods of northern Florida, the story concerns the relationship between 12-year-old Jody Baxter and Flag, the fawn he adopts. When the fawn cannot be stopped from eating the

Clarence Brown: The 1940s and ’50s: Just as moving—and successful—was The Yearling (1946), based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s novel about a boy who raises a fawn as a pet but then has to kill the animal when it begins to eat his poverty-stricken family’s crops. Gregory Peck was cast as the sympathetic father and Jane…

Robert Duncan: …earlier poems were collected in The Years as Catches: First Poems, 1939–1946 (1966), and his poems of the 1950s appear in Derivations: Selected Poems, 1950–56 (1968). The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), and Ground Work (1984) are collections of his finest

Robert Caro: …publication, Caro began research on The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982), which he conceived of as the first in a series of books covering the former president’s life. In the process of researching the first volume, which would document Johnson’s life up until the United States…

Franz Liszt: Years with Marie d’Agoult of Franz Liszt: …named Années de pèlerinage (1837–54; Years of Pilgrimage), which are poetical evocations of Swiss and Italian scenes. He also wrote the first mature version of the Transcendental Études (1838, 1851); these are works for solo piano based on his youthful Étude en 48 exercices, but here transformed into pieces of…

the Smiths: Solo careers and controversies: … (2006), and the self-assuredness of Years of Refusal (2009). His subsequent albums, including Low in High School (2017), I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020), and Make-Up Is a Lie (2026), however, were less well received.

James Thurber: …of his associates there in The Years with Ross (1959).

Annie Ernaux: The Years: …to be Les Années (2008; The Years), a personal and collective history of postwar France. It garnered Ernaux the Marguerite Duras and the François Mauriac prizes. The English translation (2019) was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and earned her a larger international audience. In 2025 a provocative stage…

Virginia Woolf: Late work: …narrative, and renaming her book The Years. She narrated 50 years of family history through the decline of class and patriarchal systems, the rise of feminism, and the threat of another war. Desperate to finish, Woolf lightened the book with poetic echoes of gestures, objects, colours, and sounds and with…

Garth Brooks: …star and frequent duet partner Trisha Yearwood. While he remained committed to his “retirement,” Brooks occasionally performed live shows—most notably at a series of nine sold-out concerts in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2007 and a five-show benefit for Los Angeles firefighters and wildfire victims in 2008. These brief engagements seemed…

Charles Kingsley: His first novel, Yeast (printed in Fraser’s Magazine, 1848; in book form, 1851), deals with the relations of the landed gentry to the rural poor. His second, the much superior Alton Locke (1850), is the story of a tailor-poet who rebels against the ignominy of sweated labor and…

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recombinant DNA: Creating the clone: Yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) are vectors based on autonomously replicating plasmids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast). In yeast (a eukaryotic organism) a YAC behaves like a yeast chromosome and segregates properly into daughter cells. These vectors can carry the largest inserts of all and are…

candidiasis, infectious disease produced by the yeastlike fungus Candida albicans and closely related species. A common inhabitant of the mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract, Candida ordinarily causes no ill effects, except among infants and in persons debilitated by illness such as diabetes. There

Jack Butler Yeats was the most important Irish painter of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). Jack Butler Yeats was the son of John Butler Yeats, a well-known

Jack Butler Yeats: …Yeats was the son of John Butler Yeats, a well-known portrait painter, and he was the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He was privately educated in Sligo, Ireland, and he then attended various art schools in London, including the Westminster School of Art. His early work was mainly…

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly

Richard Ellmann: His book Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1948; reprinted 1987) is a study of one of Yeats’s intense conflicts, the dichotomy between the self of everyday life and the self of fantasy. The book revealed Yeats as a timid and confused man behind a facade of…

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Virgil Abloh: Early life and career: …Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and Yeezus (2013) and on West and Jay-Z’s collaboration, Watch the Throne (2011), which garnered Abloh a Grammy nomination. During this period Abloh also pursued his own undertakings, including opening RSVP Gallery (2009), a boutique and gallery in Chicago, with Don C, a friend and business…

Atom Egoyan is an Egyptian-born Canadian writer and director who is known for his nuanced character studies of people in unconventional circumstances. Egoyan was born to Armenian parents in Cairo and from age three was reared in Victoria, British Columbia. Although he received a B.A. (1982) in

Aleksandr Pushkin: Return from exile of Aleksandr Pushkin: …the unfinished Yegipetskiye nochi (1835; Egyptian Nights).

Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician who, with cosmonauts Vladimir M. Komarov and Konstantin P. Feoktistov, was a participant in the first multimanned spaceflight, that of Voskhod (“Sunrise”) 1, on October 12–13, 1964, and was also the first practicing physician in space. Upon graduating

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Paraguay: Struggle for independence: …captains Pedro Juan Cabellero and Fulgencio Yegros, they promptly deposed the governor and declared their independence on May 14, 1811.

Ye Jianying was a Chinese communist military officer, administrator, and statesman who held high posts in the Chinese government during the 1970s and ’80s. Born of a middle-class family, Ye graduated from the Yunnan Military Academy in 1919 and joined Sun Yat-sen’s Nationalist movement shortly

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Tigray: …of Aksum, the kingdom’s capital; Yeha, a ruined town of great antiquity; and Adwa, the site of a battle in 1896 in which the Italian invading force was defeated.

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Amalia Kahana-Carmon: Along with Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, Kahana-Carmon became a key figure in the new wave of Israeli fiction of the 1960s. Unlike her contemporaries, however, she wrote about the inner lives of women, exploring a realm of desire and fantasy more subjective than the Zionist themes then prevalent in…

Amalia Kahana-Carmon: Along with Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua, Kahana-Carmon became a key figure in the new wave of Israeli fiction of the 1960s. Unlike her contemporaries, however, she wrote about the inner lives of women, exploring a realm of desire and fantasy more subjective than the Zionist themes then prevalent in…

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Jacob Isaac ben Asher Przysucha was a Jewish Ḥasidic leader who sought to turn Polish Ḥasidism away from its reliance on miracle workers. He advocated a new approach that combined study of the Torah with ardent prayer. Przysucha was the descendant of a rabbinic family. He became learned in the

Jacob Isaac ben Asher Przysucha was a Jewish Ḥasidic leader who sought to turn Polish Ḥasidism away from its reliance on miracle workers. He advocated a new approach that combined study of the Torah with ardent prayer. Przysucha was the descendant of a rabbinic family. He became learned in the

Native American dance: The Southwest: …dances such as the curative yeibichai of the Navajo. Curative ceremonies, with long song cycles, are emphasized by the Navajo, along with circular social dances, recalling those of the Great Plains tribes. The Apache have developed a spectacular masked dance, called the gahan, to obtain cures but chiefly to celebrate…

Best Movies of 2025: A List of Lists: …are Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (winner of best foreign-language film at the Golden Globes), and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.

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Catherine the Great was a German-born empress of Russia (1762–96) who led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe, carrying on the work begun by Peter the Great. With her ministers she reorganized the administration and law of the Russian Empire and extended

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Yiddish literature: The 21st century: His Yekl (1896) uses some Yiddish words that are explained in footnotes. The novel generally translates Yiddish dialogue into standard English, but it also includes what the narrator calls “mutilated English” present in the characters’ Americanized Yiddish. Mary Antin, whose family moved from Russia to Boston…

Native American music: Aerophones: The Yekuana people of southern Venezuela play an end-blown free-reed bamboo instrument called the tekeyë, which has a lamella inside the pipe. Although the player’s lips do not touch the lamella, it vibrates when he blows into the pipe. The tekeyë is played in pairs; one…

Zagwe dynasty: …end of the 13th century Yekuno Amlak, a prince of the Amhara, incited so successful a rebellion in Shewa that the Zagwe king, Yitbarek, was driven out and murdered. A new Zagwe king stirred up a counterrebellion but was defeated.

Ibn Gabirol: Early life and career: …scholars and the influential courtier Yekutiel ibn Ḥasan. Protected by this patron, whom Ibn Gabirol immortalized in poems of loving praise, the 16-year-old poet became famous for his religious hymns in masterly Hebrew. The customary language of Andalusian literature had been Arabic, and Hebrew had only recently been revived as…

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Wyclef Jean: …Jean Foundation (later known as Yéle Haiti). The organization raised money and engineered programs to assist victims of poverty in Haiti. Following the Haiti earthquake of 2010, Yéle Haiti raised several million dollars for those affected. Jean announced in August of 2010 that he would run for president of Haiti,…

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Russia: Vasily III: …her apparent barrenness, he married Yelena Glinskaya, who bore him only two children—the deaf and mute Yury and the sickly Ivan, who was three years old at Vasily’s death in 1533.

Yelets, city, Lipetsk oblast (region), western Russia, on the Sosna River. First mentioned in 1146 and the seat of a minor princedom in the 13th century, Yelets long served as a southern frontier fortress. It was captured by Timur in 1395 and by the Mongols in 1414; in 1483 it passed to Moscow.

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Janet Yellen is an American economist, who was the chair (2014–18) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (commonly known as the Fed), the central bank of the United States, and secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2021–25). She was the first woman to hold each of

Janet Yellen is an American economist, who was the chair (2014–18) of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (commonly known as the Fed), the central bank of the United States, and secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2021–25). She was the first woman to hold each of

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Viktor Pelevin: …his novel Zhyoltaya strela (1993; The Yellow Arrow). In the novel a train that seems not to have started from any point or to be going anywhere carries passengers who continue the sometimes bizarre routines of their lives. Omon Ra (1992; published in English under the same title), was a…

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