
Virginia Woolf’s Soho: Extract from ‘Nights Out’ by Judith Walkowitz
Judith Walkowitz, author of Nights Out, a new book on the history of Soho, discusses Virginia Woolf’s interactions…
Judith Walkowitz, author of Nights Out, a new book on the history of Soho, discusses Virginia Woolf’s interactions…
Music for Silenced Voices by Wendy Lesser, published in paperback this month, is a biography of Shostakovich that views him…
The Daily You by John Turow documents the new media marketing revolution, showing how advertisers are stealthily defining…
Nigel Smith’s critically acclaimed biography Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon has just been published in paperback. Drawing on exhaustive archival research,…
Published in paperback this month The Hollywood Sign by Leo Braudy (part of Yale’s Icons of America series) is…
Were the ancient Olympic games anything like the competitions we know today? Neil Faulkner’s A Visitor’s Guide to the…
Last month Yale published Israel: An Introduction, a uniquely wide-ranging portrait of the country, covering important topics such as…
Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits by Stephen Chan (out now in paperback) explores the political landscape of southern Africa,…
Palmerston: A Biography was widely acclaimed upon its publication in 2010, for being the first comprehensive biography of the…
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man (now published in paperback) is the definitive biography of the most famous African American of…
Yesterday, as part of our Dickens at 200 blog, we took a brief look at A Genius for…
Donald Weinstein’s new biography of Girolamo Savonarola, the visionary Dominican friar, provides the first truly satisfying account of his…
The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree is a groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books…
Jackson Pollock’s revolutionary ‘drip paintings’ put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the…
Ralph Tailor’s Summer is a hugely moving book that looks at the plague of 1636 and its impact on…