Enlightening the Enlightenment
April 5, 2023
Dare to Know was a New York Times Best Art Book of 2022 Elizabeth M. Rudy — How can the organization of a book about the Enlightenment convey the period’s… READ MORE
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Ep. 105 – The World’s First Known Author
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
Urban Visionaries: Smokehouse Associates
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
Where Next for the World’s First Author?
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
Ecocritical Art History on the A&AePortal
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
Mixed Signals: A Conversation with Uri Gneezy
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
The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Conversation with Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau
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
Interests, Not Ideology, Should Drive America’s Approach to China
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
“My Dearest James”: Agha Shahid Ali and James Merrill
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
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