April 30, 2014
Follow @yaleRELIbooks Alon Confino‘s A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide centers itself around an important question: Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany… READ MORE
Follow @freudeinstein (Jennifer Michael Hecht) There is a certain myth to the idea that most suicides occur around the holidays; in fact, it’s usually in spring and summer that see… READ MORE
April 29, 2014
Last fall, we introduced you to our Spring/Summer 2014 season of books through an interactive crossword puzzle that we posted on our blog – many of the artists whose names,… READ MORE
Follow @yaleRELIbooks Read Michael Coogan’s post on the politics of the April 27 canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II Despite the Ten Commandments’ enduring power as either the… READ MORE
April 28, 2014
Follow @yaleSCIbooks April’s known for its spring showers, but April is also book swap month! Our 4th annual Book Swap took place here at YUP during the week of April 21st– 25th. We… READ MORE
Follow @JeffSharlet Follow @yaleRELIbooks Some stories are best told in fragments, built like mosaics from pieces brought together. The story of American religion, what belief can look like since the… READ MORE
April 26, 2014
Happy National Poetry Month! Check out the new site, Youngerpoets.org! Yale University Press had the pleasure of interviewing Eryn Green, whose collection, Eruv, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2013;… READ MORE
April 25, 2014
Laura Davulis— Part spring cleaning, part cathartic cleansing ritual, part pizza party: every spring Yale University Press sets aside one Friday to clear out the clutter of the previous year…. READ MORE
Thank you, readers, for your thoughtful and knowledgeable responses to our recent contests. Our Josef Albers fill in the blanks contest of March 21st, 2014, however, may have been overly… READ MORE
Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life