Robots in Our Midst: A Conversation with Jerry Kaplan
Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply, says the robots are coming, but whether they will be…
Interviews
Intelligence in the Flesh: An Interview with Guy Claxton
Intelligence in the Flesh is the provocative new publication from Guy Claxton. The book draws on the latest…
Eureka! The Inventor’s Challenge
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are…
Eureka! The Gift of Imagination
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are…
Eureka! Discovering the Modern Inventor
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are…
Haunted by Whistler: Dan Sutherland on his biography of an elusive genius
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) is not only the first in…
Eureka! How Does Invention Happen?
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are…
The Ceaseless Curiosity of Alberto Manguel: An Interview
What drives us to learn? How do books help us understand the world? How does language fail us?…
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in the Motor City – Interview with Mark Rosenthal
From the late 1920s through the 1930s, Mexican artists Diego Rivera (1886-1957), and his wife Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), were…
Douwe Draaisma on Memory & Forgetting
We had the chance to sit down with renowned memory scholar, Douwe Draaisma, author of The Nostalgia Factory,…
Interview with David Adjaye, by David Ebony
Postcolonial Realism: The Architecture of David Adjaye Merging the worlds of architecture, art, and design in a unique way,…
Marian Schwartz on Translating Tolstoy
We had the chance to sit down with prolific translator Marian Schwartz to talk about her latest translation…
Pevsner Guides: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire & Peterborough
Yale’s Pevsner Architectural Guides series has continued to grow during 2014, and now includes a revised volume on Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire…
An Interview with Mark Polizzotti
We had the privilege of sitting down to talk with Mark Polizzotti, who, among other things, has recently…
Need For Speed?
Speed Limits by Mark C. Taylor helps make sense of a world in which everything from fashion to finance…