A Beginner’s Guide to Wine, Part II
With the holidays upon us and the weather turning colder, November and December offer plenty of opportunity for…
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The Event of Terry Eagleton
‘If Terry Eagleton didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent him.’ – Simon Critchley, author of The…
A Beginner’s Guide to Wine, Part I
With the holidays upon us and the weather turning colder, November and December offer plenty of opportunity for…
Yale Books Autumn Reading List
‘I don’t think there’s a trade publishing house producing high-calibre, serious non-fiction of the quality and variety of Yale.’…
Jewish Lives – New Biographies
Yale are very proud to publish the Jewish Lives series, a collection of biographies that focus on prominent and influential figures in the…
The Catholic Church, Pope Francis and The Shroud of Turin
The mystery surrounding the Shroud of Turin has fascinated people for centuries. Often considered to be the burial…
Einstein & His General Theory of Relativity
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and to celebrate this momentous occasion,…
Inventing the Yale Christmas Tree
Although the true origins of the Christmas tree may be shrouded in mystery and lost to pre-history, the…
Need For Speed?
Speed Limits by Mark C. Taylor helps make sense of a world in which everything from fashion to finance…
Kristallnacht and the Nazi Imagination
How were the Nazis able to conceive of eradicating an entire people… of ‘A World Without Jews’? This…
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…
Freudian Clip: Interview with Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips’ Becoming Freud is a biography that explores the life of the young Freud, spanning his first fifty years,…
Summer Solstice, Stonehenge and Pagan Britain
June 21st is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It is also the one day…
Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips
From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father…
Terry Eagleton:
Culture and the Death of God
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? In Culture and the Death of…