Illustrating Retroland: A Q+A with Nathan Burton
What does it take to illustrate a cover for a book about books? We caught up with Nathan Burton, the illustrator of Retroland, to…
Language
150 Years of Gilgamesh
The year 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh. The epic had been forgotten for around two thousand…
Why Multilingualism Matters – A Q&A with Marek Kohn
In a world that has global English and translation technology, it’s easy to assume that the need to use more than one language is…
The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
This year, we’re delighted to be publishing Terry Eagleton‘s tenth work with Yale, Radical Sacrifice, a weaving and cross-cultural examination of sacrifice from ancient times to…
The Historical Assault on the Language of the Deaf by Gerald Shea
Gerald Shea – Noam Chomsky, giving a lecture in Chicago in 1965, mistakenly defined language as “a specific sound-to-meaning correspondence.” When asked where…
‘The Gift of the Gab’ by David Crystal – What makes a good election speech?
With the snap general election announced in Britain, the French election currently in progress, and the extensive coverage of the continuing effects of the US election…
A Guide to Public Speaking – with David Crystal
To celebrate the publication of his new book The Gift of the Gab, we asked preeminent language specialist and public speaking guru David Crystal to share…
Eloquent, moi? by David Crystal
‘Crystal’s passion for his subject communicates quite brilliantly.’ – Stephen Fry on The Gift of the Gab David Crystal is one of the world’s…
The Anglo-Saxon World: From Roman Retreat to Norman Takeover
The Anglo-Saxon period witnessed the birth of the English people, the establishment of Christianity, and the development of the English language. With an extraordinary…
What’s In A Name?
Have you ever wondered where names come from? Why is it that people commonly have two names? Are people with the name Armstrong always…
How to Have a Conversation
Have you ever wondered how people learned to have conversations? Why don’t we all speak at the same time? Why do we speak at…
Accents and Social Identity
The way in which someone speaks can tell us a lot about them, or at least we think it can. David Crystal, author of A…
Speaking on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Yale’s Little Histories are a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the most significant events, ideas, discoveries and people throughout…
An Interview with Poet Kiki Dimoula by Cecile Inglessis Margellos
Following a recent profile in the New York Times, we are pleased to release a special intimate conversation between Greek poet Kiki Dimoula and Cecile Inglessis Margellos, one of…
‘The First Ever Record of Everything Jewish’. An Interview with Felix Posen, Founder of the Posen Library
Felix Posen is a man deeply passionate about secular Jewish history, having himself moved from a religiously orthodox upbringing into a secular understanding of…
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