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Felix Posen is a man deeply passionate about secular Jewish history, having himself moved from a religiously orthodox upbringing into a secular understanding of…
In his latest book The Great Dickens Scandal, Yale University Press author Michael Slater peers into the tangled web of Dickens’ personal life and discovers…
Francis J. Bremer, the author of the recently published biography, Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds, discusses the intertwined religious and political…
Yale author Michael Slater introduces his latest book on Dickens, and begins to untangle the web of intrigue that surrounds one of Victorian Britain’s…
Strindberg: A Life has been chosen as one of the 14 titles on the Longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the…
This October, Yale will be publishing the surviving diaries of Richard Burton. Starting when he was 14 and running throughout his life, career and…
The controversial Diary of the eminent polish author Witold Gombrowicz, has now been published in English after years of being out of print. In this extract from the book’s…
John Wheeler-Bennett is not a household name but, in the mid-twentieth century, he knew virtually everyone who was. As a historian and observer of…
Today the Tate Modern launches its fabulous new Edvard Munch exhibition The Modern Eye, which focuses on the Norwegian artist’s engagement with modernist principles…
In Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (out now in paperback) iterary scholar and music critic David Yaffe offers an appreciative yet incisive look at the…
Published this month Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter by Emmanuel Cooper investigates the life and legacy of the brilliant and elusive potter Lucie Rie. Today we…
Larissa Taylor’s vivid biography of Joan of Arc The Virgin Warrior was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. In this fascinating article, Taylor discusses…
Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life (out now in paperback) is an intimate, penetrating study of the great Russian poet’s life and work, written by…
Yale’s Autumn / Winter seasonal catalogue is available now to order and download. Today we take a quick look at some of the intriguing and fascinating…
Historian Glyn Parry discusses the subject of his new biography The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee, a book which ‘rescues Dr Dee from the…