
A Conversation with Tim Parks: A YaleBooks Podcast
Shortly before his death in 1837, Giacomo Leopardi, a prolific Italian writer, translator, and thinker, began to organise…
Shortly before his death in 1837, Giacomo Leopardi, a prolific Italian writer, translator, and thinker, began to organise…
Jealousy, the green-eyed monster, has been spotted here at Yale Books. A fascinating emotion, jealousy occupies a paradoxical…
The Oxford Lieder Festival in autumn 2014 will celebrate song through workshops, talks and master classes, ‘bringing Franz…
One of the things that make the Yale Little History series unique is that every book is accompanied…
Adam Phillips’ Becoming Freud is a biography that explores the life of the young Freud, spanning his first fifty years,…
We are excited to announce The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs, by cultural critic and Rolling Stone columnist Greil…
Yale’s series of books cataloguing the complete paintings of John Singer Sargent nears completion with the release of…
John Sutherland’s ‘Little History’ tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to…
‘A mind for ever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone…’ – William Wordsworth, The Prelude The metaphor of…
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater…
One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was killed at the age of 25…
Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers…
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the…
What makes the economic relationship between the United States and China so fraught with anxiety, tension, and a…
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is not only the first in…