March 30, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with cultural historian and translator Sophus Helle about his new book, Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First… READ MORE
March 29, 2023
Interview with Eric Booker by David Ebony The late 1960s and early ’70s was a time of social upheaval, civil unrest and protests around the world, including in the United… READ MORE
March 24, 2023
Sophus Helle— Enheduana is the first known author in the history of world literature. She was a royal princess and high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BCE in… READ MORE
March 22, 2023
Patricia Fidler, Executive Director of the A&AePortal, recently interviewed Alan C. Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and Environmental Humanities at William & Mary, about his new… READ MORE
March 21, 2023
In Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work, Uri Gneezy explains why incentives often fail and demonstrates how the right incentives can change behavior by aligning the signals for better results. Here, he… READ MORE
March 20, 2023
Geoffrey S. Smith— In March of 2019 I received a text from my colleague Brent Landau, asking whether I’d be interested in sitting in on his graduate seminar down the… READ MORE
March 16, 2023
Ryan Hass— Ideologues prefer to understand the U.S.-China relationship as a contest between good versus evil. They take comfort in clean divisions between democracies versus autocracies. They like parallels between… READ MORE
March 15, 2023
Manan Kapoor— Sometime in the 1990s, Agha Shahid Ali wrote a poem about the Bosnian War and sent it to James Merrill, who responded: “There is nothing that you can… READ MORE
March 14, 2023
David Bentley Hart— When I first set out to translate the New Testament, my aim was to return as faithfully as possible to the original Greek, and to its ambiguities…. READ MORE
Ep. 105 – The World’s First Known Author
