Pevsner Highlights and a look ahead
The Pevsner annual newsletter is now available online. Read on for Pevsner highlights from 2015, as well as a look ahead to 2016, including…
Series and Editions
Measuring pressure is tricky, just ask Stephen Hales’ horse!
Robert Boyle was fascinated by the world and he spent his life trying to explain why things are as they are. He was a…
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. A first hand experience of the National Gallery exhibition
British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others associated with the Young British Artists…
History Catalogue 2013: Retrospectives from Yale University Press
These titles, selected from the Yale University Press 2013 History Catalogue, offer in depth retrospectives of extraordinary events, people and places from across history. The collection…
Remarkable Lives: A Collection of Extraordinary Biographies from Yale
Remarkable achievements are often the products of remarkable lives. The following collection of recently published and forthcoming books from Yale present a stunning assortment…
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. to focus on his art…
New and recent current affairs titles from Yale University Press
The challenges facing the world are multiplex; the global financial crisis, costly and exhausting conflicts, and cracks appearing in the fabric of the gigantic…
The newest volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Ireland series: South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan and Monaghan
The South Ulster volume of the Buildings of Ireland covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly…
‘How can books keep families and generations together?’ Author Article by Fania Oz-Salzberger
This year Yale University Press authors Judith Walkowitz, Frederic Raphael and Fania Oz-Salzberger will be contributing to the Jewish Book Week, appearing in talks…
‘Art of the Actual’: Magnificent work from Richard Thompson’s new interpretation of nineteenth century French art.
Yale University Press presents a splendid high-resolution image and a gallery taken from Art of the Actual. The French Republic – with its rallying cry…
Bucharest Spring: Extract from ‘The Black Envelope’ by Norman Manea (part 1)
The Black Envelope is a novel by Jewish Romanian novelist Norman Manea, and has recently been published in Yale’s pioneering Mergellos series of literature…
Beautiful Province by Clarence Coo Wins the 2012 Yale Drama Series Award
The winner of the Yale Drama Series Award for Emerging Playwrights is Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province. After much deliberation and over a thousand submissions, Beautiful…
The Meaning of Mary: The latest edition in Yale’s ‘Spirit Of…’ series looks at the Holy Virgin
Yale’s pioneering ‘Spirit of…’ series is an enlightening collection of books that investigate the spirit and essence of the world’s faiths. Today we take…
Sign of the Times: Extract from ‘The Hollywood Sign’ by Leo Braudy
Published in paperback this month The Hollywood Sign by Leo Braudy (part of Yale’s Icons of America series) is a fascinating account of how a…
Will Schutt wins the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012
Will Schutt has been awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize 2012. Schutt’s volume Westerly will be published in Yale’s pioneering Younger Poets series next…