Yale University Press Blog
Ep. 85 – The Life and Art of Bob Thompson
October 28, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Diana K. Tuite, the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Her exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is… READ MORE
Finding a Genetic Hybrid
October 8, 2021
Tom Higham— Monday 22 June 2015 at 9:10 am. One of the great moments of my life. I was in one of the laboratories at the Research Lab for Archaeology… READ MORE
Muscat, December 1992
October 7, 2021
Sonallah Ibrahim— As Fathy pulled the seat belt across his chest he said, “Please fasten your seat belt or we’re doomed. Traffic cops here are tough, nothing like in your… READ MORE
Mussolini’s Last Lover
October 6, 2021
R.J.B. Bosworth— The story began on 24 April 1932, a sunny day in Rome. That afternoon, the Petaccis, by now residing even more centrally and respectably at flat 6, 326… READ MORE
Sadie Alexander on Black Achievement
October 5, 2021
Nina Banks— Sadie Alexander was an outstanding economic historian whose speeches relied heavily on her knowledge of European and American history. Prior to taking courses in European history at the… READ MORE
Jews in the Greek and Roman Periods
October 4, 2021
Lawrence M. Wills— The books of the Hebrew Bible were likely composed in the ninth through second centuries BCE, under a range of very different political conditions. Israel was established… READ MORE
Theories of Managerialism
October 1, 2021
Beth Simone Noveck— In recent decades, especially since Reagan and Thatcher, some scholars and practitioners have argued that the way to fix government is to copy the techniques of the… READ MORE
James Castle’s Silent Universe
September 30, 2021
Interview with John Beardsley by David Ebony Today, James Castle (1899-1977) is renowned for the richly nuanced surface textures of his gray-scale drawings, his moody and mystical views of the… READ MORE
Paradoxes of Constitutional Processes
September 29, 2021
Donald L. Horowitz— Suppose you were advising a constitutional assembly chosen to produce a new constitution for a troubled country. Most constitutions are created because some trouble has occurred: the… READ MORE
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