Jenny Diski: On Babyface
August 8, 2017
Jenny Diski— The great advantage over real live creatures that my Three Bears had in common with Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, aside from not needing to be fed or produce… READ MORE
Category: Literature
Writing and Self-Hatred
August 4, 2017
Devorah Baum— In his amazingly pleasurable new book, In Writing, psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips describes writing, in his experience, as an “amazing pleasure.” Lucky him. He sits down to… READ MORE
Sorkin on the Racing Line
August 1, 2017
Clive James— Both The Sopranos and Band of Brothers were HBO cable productions, and their collective impact might tend to persuade us that network television was left nowhere. But it’s a law… READ MORE
Gore Vidal: Some After Words
July 31, 2017
On July 31, 2012, Gore Vidal died at his home in in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he had moved in 2003, the same year that Yale… READ MORE
Pride Month Bookshelf: LGBTQIA+ History, Cultural Studies, and Literature Beyond June
June 28, 2017
Presenting our Yale University Press Pride Month reading list—because celebrating #Pride2017, learning from the history of the movement, championing stories and contributions of LGBTQIA+ individuals, and working each day to insist on equal… READ MORE
The Idea of Yugoslavia: Translating Miljenko Jergović’s “The Walnut Mansion”
June 21, 2017
The Walnut Mansion by Miljenko Jergović—translated by Stephen M. Dickey with Janja Pavetic-Dickey—is a grand novel that encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia’s tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the… READ MORE
The Legacy of Jane Austen and the Industry of “Jane Austen”
June 20, 2017
Fiona Stafford– When Jane Austen spoke of being “in love with” Clarkson, in a private letter of 1813, she was referring to the indefatigable antislavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson and his… READ MORE
How Did We Read in the Past?
June 9, 2017
Abigail Williams— On April 15th, 1802, Dorothy and William Wordsworth took one of the most significant walks in literary history. They set out in blustery weather, across the fells near Ullswater… READ MORE
Max Eastman: A Brief Introduction
June 6, 2017
Christoph Irmscher— The writer, editor, poet, and political activist Max Eastman (1883-1969) helped shape the dominant intellectual trends of the early twentieth century. He knew personally the most important minds… READ MORE
Sarah Osborn: Early American Evangelical, Part II
May 18, 2017
Catherine Brekus— The following letters are taken from the writings of Sarah Osborn, an evangelical woman who lived in Newport, Rhode Island, during the eighteenth century. Osborn was a published… READ MORE
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