
Translating Karl Kraus & The Last Days of Mankind
Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s famous Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – or in English The Last Days of Mankind – remains powerfully relevant in its enactment of the…
Austrian satirist Karl Kraus’s famous Die letzten Tage der Menschheit – or in English The Last Days of Mankind – remains powerfully relevant in its enactment of the…
Patrick Modiano’s Paris – Article by Mark Polizzotti, translator of Suspended Sentences & After the Circus Patrick Modiano’s Paris – the Paris of his…
‘Being book crazy is an aspect of love, and therefore scarcely rational at all’ – Clive James Clive James’ new book Latest Readings has made quite…
Whether your winter pursuits include trips to the ballet, winter wine tasting or some fireside garden planning in anticipation of spring, our winter reading…
‘If Terry Eagleton didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him.’ – Simon Critchley, author of The Book of Dead Philosophers Terry Eagleton…
‘With James, one hopes fervently that the finale is only just beginning.’ —Evening Standard This year Yale published Clive James’s Latest Readings, a short…
‘I don’t think there’s a trade publishing house producing high-calibre, serious non-fiction of the quality and variety of Yale.’ – Sam Leith It’s officially autumn,…
The charm of a second hand book and the thrill of discovering a hidden gem is one of the treats in store for visitors…
‘My response to books has improved throughout my life, until now, finally, I am fit to be a proper student.’ In August 2015 Yale…
At the very heart of London’s South Bank – famous for its striking Brutalist concrete architecture – you will find our Bookshop of the…
We are heading east for our bookshop of the month for June, to Jarrold department store in Norwich. The store is part of the Jarrold…
What drives us to learn? How do books help us understand the world? How does language fail us? We sat down with reader and…
At 10 Curzon Street in Mayfair, London, you will find Heywood Hill – our bookshop of the month for May. The bookshop boasts that…
Alberto Manguel is a tour de force when it comes to reading, and in fact all things book related. Best described as ‘a reader’,…
World Poetry Day, on 21 March, is an event organised by the United Nations to ‘recognise the unique ability of poetry to capture the…