
Rachel Adams on Raising Henry
Publishing this month, Rachel Adams‘s Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery gives a deeply moving and honest account of…
Publishing this month, Rachel Adams‘s Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery gives a deeply moving and honest account of…
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He…
Sue Prideaux is the author of Strindberg: A Life. Playwright, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser, August Strindberg (1849–1912) is principally…
These titles, selected from the Yale University Press 2013 History Catalogue, offer in depth retrospectives of extraordinary events, people and…
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding…
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He…
Remarkable achievements are often the products of remarkable lives. The following collection of recently published and forthcoming books…
History is rife with examples of persecuted scientists—think Rhazes, Galileo, and Servetus, for starters—but it would be a…
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven…
The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying one of our greatest literary geniuses as he…
David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross…
Susan Jacoby, author of the new biography, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, here reflects on the significance…
Felix Posen is a man deeply passionate about secular Jewish history, having himself moved from a religiously orthodox…
In his latest book The Great Dickens Scandal, Yale University Press author Michael Slater peers into the tangled web…
Francis J. Bremer, the author of the recently published biography, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three…