Shakespeare400 – Why Hamlet?
‘Josipovici … has a nose for the big questions and for what doesn’t work as an answer. Best of all, he reads carefully and…
Performing Arts
Shakespeare – The Poet of Them All
April 2016 marks 400 years since the death of Shakespeare, one of the greatest and most renowned poets that ever lived. Many events will…
Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Salome
Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Salome by Linda Gertner Zatlin, author of Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné Artistic Collaboration The association of Aubrey Beardsley…
Tristan Perich’s Art of Music by Patrick Coleman
Patrick Coleman, co-author of The Art of Music – Right now, one of the most exciting art exhibitions in London can’t be seen—not exactly….
Why Acting Matters – The Oscars 2016
As the 2016 Oscars approach – the 88th Academy Awards ceremony that will take place on 28 February – why acting matters is a…
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…
Francis Barber & Mr Foote’s Other Leg
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Jamaican manservant and heir, Francis Barber, has been gaining attention over the past year. In spring 2015 Yale released the biography…
Greil Marcus on Real Life Rock
Greil Marcus is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to cultural criticism. For three decades Marcus has written a popular column…
World Ballet Day 2015
Yale Author Zoe Anderson introduces World Ballet Day 2015 ‘Ballet now crosses boundaries, in technology and in style’ World Ballet Day, held this year…
Voices of the Wild – Echoes from a Soundscape Ecologist
Article by Bernie Krause, author of Voices of the Wild ‘While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a soundscape is worth a…
Who was Béla Bartók?
The Hungarian musician and composer Béla Bartók is the subject of a comprehensive new book by David Cooper, bringing audiences the most complete biography of Bartók…
Zoe Anderson’s Ballet Lover’s Companion guides us through the dance
Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson’s new book The Ballet Lover’s Companion examines 140 of the most loved, influential and successful ballets, both classical and modern, of…
David Cooper on Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók is widely acknowledged as one of the most important musical composers of the early 20th century. He is considered to be one of the…
Before Pop… There was Folk
When we consider the term Pop Art, images that spring to mind might be Andy Warhol’s immortalising screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, Roy Lichtenstein’s Ben-Day dot…
5 books to watch (and read) in 2015
We’ve had an exciting year here at Yale UP London, with highlights such as a Nobel prize-winning author, long-awaited new editions to the Pevsner…