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This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age “Elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New ...| Yale University Press
This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and coming of age “Elegiac and witty.”—Elisa Gabbert, New ...| 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
This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twenti...| Yale University Press
A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese co...| 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 The post Fountains and Flattery appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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 The post We Computers: A Conversation with Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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 The post The 100th Anniversary of Critical Theory in Naples appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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 The post Idi Amin’s Uganda: Life on the Front Lines appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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 The post Unavoidable: Battles Over the Past appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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 The post “Worse Things Than Dying”: The Entangled History of the Anti-Mask and Anti-Vaccination Movements appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Eike Exner— Outside of Japan, the word manga is used not only as a synonym for Japanese comics but often also to describe a particular drawing style associated with Japanese... READ MORE The post Large Eyes, Pointy Chins, Pointy Noses: How Manga Became <i>Manga</i> appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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
An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history “Exh...| Yale University Press
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Eike Exner, a historian of graphic narrative whose new book Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics tells... READ MORE The post Podcast episode: The History of Japanese Manga appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Hanna Diamond— Panthéonisation is the tradition of burial or reburial in the Pantheon in central Paris. This imposing mausoleum is a secular national site, and burial there represents the highest... READ MORE The post “Ma France, ma Joséphine”: The Pantheonization of Josephine Baker appeared first on Yale University Press.| 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
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule ...| 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
Epic of the Earth: A Conversation with Edith Hall| 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
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 to fruition.... 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
Calvin Schermerhorn— “I felt no real safety South of Canada,” Henry Goings recalled as he gazed at Canada across the Detroit River, “for there is none to the colored man... READ MORE| Yale University Press
Philip J. Deloria’s classic exploration of white America’s drive to “play Indian,” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age “[A] brilliant book. ...| 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
Nic Cheeseman and Brian Klaas— The greatest political paradox of our time is this: there are more elections than ever before, and yet the world is becoming less democratic. Nowadays,... READ MORE| Yale University Press
A podcast conversation with art and architectural historian Andrew Wasserman about his new book, The World Atlas of Public Art.| Yale University Press
Zizi Papacharissi— The 2024 US presidential elections cycle may be its shortest: 3 months. This may be a good thing. There is much about this presidential cycle that grants it... READ MORE| 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
