
A Little History of Poetry – A video interview with author John Carey
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing…
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work…
Vampires have fascinated humanity for centuries. In his new book The Vampire: A New History, author Nick Groom examines…
Astrid Lindgren created one of the most beloved and groundbreaking characters in children’s literature: Pippi Longstocking. To mark…
This year, we’re delighted to be publishing Terry Eagleton‘s tenth work with Yale, Radical Sacrifice, a weaving and cross-cultural examination…
To celebrate both International Women’s Day and the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, we’ve taken a look…
David Bentley Hart, one of our most celebrated writers on religion, has undertaken a huge task to offer us…
As we near the publication of Journeying, Claudio Magris’s third book in translation with YUP, it seemed timely to…
Competition time! How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must…
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen became a cult figure to a generation…
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the birth and evolution of a commercial literary culture and the expansion of popular…
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen passed away in Winchester, England at the age of 41. In…
Presented exclusively by YUP in anticipation of the publication of Adonis’ newest book, Concerto al-Quds, We are delighted to…