February 17, 2023
Joel E. Dimsdale— Twenty-first century brainwashing researchers will also exploit the capabilities of a very different area—social media. Recall how governments seized upon pharmaceutical developments in obstetrics and used those… READ MORE
February 15, 2023
In this episode of our podcast, we talk to Brandon Taylor, esteemed art historian and practicing artist, about his new book, Make It Modern: A History of Art in the… READ MORE
February 14, 2023
Karl Kraus— EPILOGUE The Final Night Battlefield. Craters. Smoke clouds. Starless night. The horizon is a wall of flames. Corpses. Dying soldiers. Men and women in gas masks appear. A… READ MORE
February 13, 2023
Conversation between Brenda Danilowitz, chief curator, and Amy Jean Porter, assistant curator,both of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Described as “one of the most important books on color ever… READ MORE
February 10, 2023
Mindy Aloff— Nancy Reynolds, while still a teenager, was invited to join New York City Ballet (NYCB), where she performed for George Balanchine as a member of the corps de… READ MORE
February 9, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Robert D. Kaplan about The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, a moving meditation on recent… READ MORE
Ying-chen Peng — 2022 was concluded with ominous news from Afghanistan: the Taliban government suspended university education for all female students. It was another move to restrict women’s access to… READ MORE
February 7, 2023
Richard Sieburth— The title of this never-to-be-finished book, My Heart Laid Bare, was also drawn from one of Poeʼs “Marginalia,” in which the author of the “Tell-Tale Heart” had thrown… READ MORE
February 3, 2023
Laurie Winer— I had gotten my Library of Congress ID card, but I did not have an appointment with anyone in particular at the Music Division, the large research room… READ MORE
February 2, 2023
In this episode of the podcast, we talk with Stephen Burks, designer, educator, principal at Stephen Burks Man Made, and the subject of an exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of… READ MORE
Deobandism, Islam and the Religious Narratives of the Taliban
