A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: books for your coffee table
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and…
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A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: Books for mods, rockers and all that jazz
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and…
A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: The Dedicated Follower of Fashion
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and…
Ever Yours: the Van Gogh Letters
In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings Vincent van Gogh left behind a fascinating and illuminating body of…
A Book Lover’s Gift Guide: The Globetrotter
This winter we have gathered together some of our favourite books – books for Biography Buffs, History Lovers and…
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…
Frank Browne: A Life Through the Lens
Father Francis Browne is a remarkable figure in the history of photography. Whilst he dedicated himself to life…
Modiano: a scholar’s perspective
In 2014, French author Patrick Modiano stepped – uncharacteristically – into the limelight by winning the Nobel Prize…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This…
Out of the Shadows: E. H. Gombrich on Western Art
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art is an example of the continued importance of discussing light…
Bookshop of the Month: Brick Lane Bookshop
Bookshop of the Month goes hip this November with the Brick Lane Bookshop. The only bookshop located directly…
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…
The Shroud of Turin As A Ceremonial Easter cloth
In this blog, Yale UP author Charles Freeman writes about the significance of the Shroud of Turin, and…
10 Commandments of Bird Watching
Yale’s latest avian title offers advice about the best ways in which we can share our gardens and neighbourhoods with our feathered…