Jane Austen: A Brief Life, by Fiona Stafford – An Extract
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen passed away in Winchester, England at the age of 41. In…
Fiction
The Last Lover by Can Xue – An Extract
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction In her first UK appearance, Chinese novelist and…
Margellos World Republic of Letters: From Tolstoy to Modiano
The Margellos World Republic of Letters brings together canonical works of literature and fiction originally written in languages…
Quiet Resonance: Translating Patrick Modiano
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti At first blush, the qualities suggested by…
Translating Marcel Proust
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a…
Translating ‘Foreignness’: Interview with Norman Manea and Oana Sânziana Marian, translator of ‘The Lair’
Translated into English for the first time, Norman Manea’s The Lair explores the human condition of exile, love, isolation and…
An Émigré in New York: Extract from Norman Manea’s ‘The Lair’
Norman Manea is an acclaimed literary figure, whose works evoke comparisons to such giants as Kafka and Musil….
Bucharest Spring: Extract from ‘The Black Envelope’ by Norman Manea (part 1)
The Black Envelope is a novel by Jewish Romanian novelist Norman Manea, and has recently been published in…
Author Video: Terry Eagleton discusses the philosophy of literature, fiction and indeterminacy
In The Event of Literature Terry Eagleton returns to the discipline to which he has devoted his career: literary theory….
From the Bard to the Bible: Books by influential literary critic Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is one of the world’s preeminent literary critics. Known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets,…
Yale University Press London launches its Spring / Summer 2012 Seasonal Catalogue
Yale’s Spring / Summer seasonal catalogue is now available now to order and download. Today we take a…
Yale History Catalogue 2011 available now
Yale University Press’s History Catalogue 2011 is available to view and download from yalebooks.co.uk The catalogue contains everything…
Yale’s Autumn and Winter 2011 catalogue is available now
Yale University Press has just published its catalogue for the Autumn and Winter publishing season. It contains every…
What will you be reading over the Easter weekend?
Yale University Press presents some ideas to kick-start your bank-holiday reading. Easter is fast approaching, and the more…
‘Hocus Bogus’ is nominated for Best Translated Book Award
The novel Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary (writing as Émile Ajar) has been nominated for the Best Translated…