Claudio Magris
As we near the publication of Journeying, Claudio Magris’s third book in translation with YUP, it seemed timely to…
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Gluck: Art and Identity
A notable highlight of the autumn-winter 2017 exhibition calendar is Gluck: Art and Identity at Brighton Museum and…
A Year in Yale Books
We know it’s only November, but here at Yale University Press, London, we’re very keen to provide some…
Eleri Lynn Lifts the Lid on Tudor Fashion
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces,…
Competition: Win a signed copy of Francis Spufford’s True Stories & Other Essays
Competition time! How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must…
Who Loves Ferguson? – An Extract from Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage
Mustafa Dikeç’s Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded explores unrest in contemporary urban communities. Using examples from all over…
A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies by Lynne Vallone
Lynne Vallone’s analytical tour-de-force, Big and Small, investigates bodily size difference as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought….
Bookshop of the Month – Lighthouse, Edinburgh
We headed up to Edinburgh for November’s Bookshop of the Month, and chatted to Mairi from Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s…
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle…
Lynda Nead explores post-war Britain, 1950s culture & The Tiger in the Smoke
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
A Q&A with Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish
Described as ‘intellectually luminous, psychologically penetrating, existentially anxious, and wonderfully funny’ by Zadie Smith, Devorah Baum’s Feeling Jewish: A…
Marcus Brutus, the Noblest Roman of them all? By Kathryn Tempest
Brutus’s leading role in the assassination of Caesar immortalised his name, but the verdict on his act remains out…
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
James Joyce Goes to Denmark by Morten Høi Jensen
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen became a cult figure to a generation…
The 2017 Heffers Medieval Festival, in partnership with Yale University Press
We at Heffers, Cambridge booksellers for 140 years, are great fans of Yale’s books, and we enjoy working…