A fresh, deeply biblical account of God’s expanding grace and mercy, tracing how the Bible’s narrative points to the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in Ch...| Yale University Press
Epic of the Earth: A Conversation with Edith Hall| Yale University Press
Who were the two fifteen-year-old girls from Little Rock—one black, one white—in one of the most unforgettable photographs of the civil rights era?"Throu...| Yale University Press
The Bloody Origins of the Word “Pioneer”| Yale University Press
Marc James Carpenter— The American West is suffused with pioneer place-names. There are pioneer squares as gathering places, pioneer museums for children, pioneer statues looming over government buildings. Business names,... READ MORE The post The Bloody Origins of the Word “Pioneer” appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Barry Schwartz and Richard Schuldenfrei— These are all complex issues. Are the tools we typically use to address them up to the task? We think they don’t come close. The... READ MORE The post Choosing the Right Frame and Its Effects on Public Policy appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Yvonne Rainer was a founding member of Judson Dance Theater, a 1960s New York artists’ collective that championed ordinary, spare movements and spontaneity. In this Q&A, we talk with the choreographer... READ MORE The post Nevertheless: A Conversation with Yvonne Rainer appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Gabriel Said Reynolds— The eighteenth chapter of the Qur’an is named “The Cave” because it includes a story of young men who slept for hundreds of years in a cave... READ MORE The post A Dog, a Donkey, and an Ant: Animals in the Qur’an and Their Biblical Background appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Stephanie Herdrich, the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Painting and Drawing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,... READ MORE The post Podcast episode: John Singer Sargent and Paris appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Author Philip Ball on the enduring appeal of alchemy, supposedly a relic of a more superstitious, pre-scientific age.| Yale University Press
From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—role in the spiritual life “Makoto Fujimura’s a...| Yale University Press
The following is an excerpt from Chapter Three of Philip Ball’s new book, Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science. In the book, rich... READ MORE The post An excerpt from Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
David Bentley Hart— Another way of describing my project in this book is as an attempt to affirm the principal four Mahāvākyas or “ Great Sayings” of Upaniṣadic tradition. These... READ MORE The post The Mystery of Consciousness Through the Eyes of Gods appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer is a compilation of the private correspondence of Claude McKay, the queer Jamaican-born Harlem Renaissance visionary. In this Q&A, editors... READ MORE The post Letters in Exile: A Conversation with Brooks E. Hefner and Gary Edward Holcomb appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Hannah Ryan’s Liquid Gold: Lactation as Labor and Human Milk as Commodity in North American Visual Culture is a newly-released born-digital publication on the A&AePortal. The book reveals milk for... READ MORE The post Liquid Gold: Q&A with Hannah Ryan appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Eric T. Jennings’s Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean shares the rich history behind the plant. In this Q&A, we talk with the author about Edmond Albius’s unique technique of... READ MORE| Yale University Press
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom “This study argues that [artificial int...| Yale University Press
Katherine Rinne— A Roman friend who spent his childhood near the Trevi Fountain says that when he was a boy in the late 1950s, the Trevi, and its piazza, was... READ MORE| Yale University Press
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel is a multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence. The book follows French poet and psychologist Jon-Perse who, inspired by what his translation partner... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Martin Mittelmeier— 100 years ago, Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer began their journey to Naples, where they met Walter Benjamin and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. This meeting transformed their way of thinking... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Derek Peterson— During his eight years in power (1971–79), Ugandan president Idi Amin faced overwhelming economic headwinds and serious political opposition. Predicting the downfall of his government became a favorite... READ MORE| Yale University Press
James M. Banner, Jr.— Save for mathematical and physical constants like the value of pi and the speed of light, few elements of life on earth are changeless. Everything undergoes... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Thomas Schlich and Bruno J. Strasser— In May 2024 at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recalled that, during the pandemic, he was asked whether... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Author Eike Exner explains how the figures in manga, the globally popular Japanese comics, came to look the way they do.| Yale University Press
An excerpt from Eike Exner's book Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics, which tells their story from the 19th century to the present day.| Yale University Press
A conversation with graphic narrative historian Eike Exner about his book, Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics| Yale University Press
Gladys M. Francis— The work of the French journalist and artist Fabienne Kanor spans literature, film, photography, and performance, forging a multiform resistance against historical erasure and contemporary violence. As... READ MORE| Yale University Press
American painter Susan Watkins (1875–1913) built an artistic career at the turn of twentieth century that met all the markers of professional success. She exhibited in Paris and New York,... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Michael Gubser— In March 2025, I spoke at a career day for Virginia high school students interested in international affairs. Many of the seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds in my session were... READ MORE| Yale University Press
An excerpt from the book Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era, which accompanies am exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art.| Yale University Press
John G. Turner— Joseph Smith (1805–1844), the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, published the Book of Mormon, which became a scripture alongside the Bible... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Travis Glasson— This year marks the beginning of a series of 250th anniversaries of the events of the American Revolution. These anniversaries, which will spool out against the backdrop of... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Thomas A. Tweed— Did George Washington kneel in prayer at Valley Forge, as this image suggests? Before and after this 1866 engraving was printed in New York, some pious Americans... READ MORE| Yale University Press
In Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s “Iliad” in the Fight for a Dying World, award-winning author, Edith Hall argues that the classics can help us understand the long history... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Kathryn C. Lavelle— For climate scientists, the Arctic is the proverbial canary in the coal mine of irreversible global change. For many observers, President Donald J. Trump’s early 2025 statements... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Christopher B Hays and Richard B Hays— The longer I live, the more convinced I am that his earlier conclusion that LGBTQ people should abstain from living out their sexual... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Jonathan R. Goodman— Recently, I ran my daily Google search about my upcoming book, Invisible Rivals, expecting the pages I’ve seen about it before. But this time there was something... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Rosa Mistika is a Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, Euphrase Kezilahabi. It was banned upon publication in 1971 and translated into English by Jay Boss Rubin... READ MORE| Yale University Press
An excerpt from the book Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris, which accompanies a summer 2025 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.| Yale University Press
Joseph Bristow— Gill: I daresay. there is another poem, described as “two Loves.” It contains these lines: “Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, dost thou rove These pleasant... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Andrea Liguori, Starr Figura, Marcia Bartholme, and Kate Zanzucchi discuss the Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonné of Prints.| Yale University Press
Akela Reason— The elegant triumphal arch that graces the southern end of Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza near Prospect Park bears few obvious hallmarks of the fraught process that brought it... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Michael Pettis— In our book Trade Wars Are Class Wars, Matthew C. Klein and I argue that the root causes of global trade imbalances—and the tensions they create—are not primarily geopolitical conflicts between... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Arbor Day celebrates the planting, preservation, and conservation of trees. Every year, The Arbor Day Foundation takes a science based approach to planting trees in communities that benefit the most.... READ MORE| Yale University Press
This Earth Month, Yale University Press authors reflect on the biggest threat to climate change mitigation while proposing new ways forward. Experts in ecology, weather patterns, climate technology, and even... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Karel van der Toorn— In the early days of the Trump II administration, it became a popular game in newspapers and on talk shows: ranking the members of the president’s... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Matthew Bowman— Late in the night of September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home on a lonely state road in central New Hampshire when they saw a... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Shelley Fisher Fishkin— Teaching America’s past and present in all its complexity has never been an easy task, but this challenge has become more difficult than ever, as more than... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Thomas Albert Howard— The year 2025 calls attention to the centenary of one of the former Soviet Union’s more curious institutions: the League of Atheism. Founded in 1925 and renamed... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Musician and artist Kathleen Hanna writes about the effect Yoko Ono's music and installation work has had on her own life and art.| Yale University Press
Donald L. Fixico— On April 4, 1968, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began the largest manhunt in the history of the agency. At 6:01 p.m. that day, on the second-floor... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Wendy Hitchmough writes about two paintings, one of painter, designer, and Bloomsbury Group member Vanessa Bell and one by her.| Yale University Press
Joel P. Christensen— Social media was abuzz with rumor and speculation in the run-up to the November 2024 U.S. presidential election. When hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the southeastern United... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Richard J. Golsan— In his interview in Yale French Studies on “The French Seventies,” the philosopher Pascal Bruckner compares the 1970s with our current decade. The 1970s, Bruckner states, was... READ MORE| Yale University Press
James Magruder— The Yale School of Drama (YSD) began in 1925 when George Pierce Baker, unable to persuade Harvard to offer a degree in playwriting, defected to Yale to teach... READ MORE| Yale University Press
What Impact Did Mies van der Rohe Have on 20th Century Architecture?| Yale University Press
Helen Fry— Twenty-two-year-old Gabrielle Petit was formally recruited by an officer of the British Service in the summer of 1915 while crossing the Channel by boat to England.1 The Belgian had... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Sten Rynning— It seems so long ago. In July 1990, at a London summit, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) heralded the beginning of a new age of cooperation and... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Adrian Karatnycky— The heroism and resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of Russia’s aggression has been on display for nearly two-and-a-half years now. Ukraine’s and Ukrainians fierce resistance to... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Brooks Lamb— Not long after I settled into a socially distanced spot outside the tent, the auctioneer began to work. He explained the sale rules and answered questions from the... READ MORE| Yale University Press
M. Jan Holton— The recent Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson determines that the rights for persons without home to sleep in public without fine or arrest, even... READ MORE| Yale University Press
The Caliphate or Supreme Imamate is Muhammad Rashid Rida’s best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought. Simon A. Wood has made The Caliphate or... READ MORE| Yale University Press
David Ebony talks to award-winning art historian Michael Lobel about his new book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature.| Yale University Press
Originally published in 2004, Gus Speth’s Red Sky at Morning warned the approach being taken to address global climate change was doomed to failure. In this essay, Speth reflects on the continued... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Timothy Garton Ash— As our small group of European experts stood with President George W. Bush on the Truman balcony of the White House one fine May day in 2001,... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, eludes easy categorization. In Bigger: A Literary Life, Trudier Harris examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence... READ MORE| Yale University Press
It may be a bit of mystery why we care so much about Roe. The Court has issued other blockbuster opinions, and they have mostly faded into obscurity. Debates about... READ MORE| Yale University Press