April 11, 2023
Gregory J. Gbur— Invisibility—the ability to make something invisible to visible light—has long been assumed by science to be impossible. This changed in 2006, when two groups of researchers published… 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 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
January 27, 2023
Patrick Modiano— In the street, he unfolded the sheet she’d handed him. Written on it was: Kim, 288-15-28. Strange first name. But it had something pert and cheerful… READ MORE
January 11, 2023
Romain Gary writing as Émile Ajar— There is no beginning. I was begotten—just like you—and since then I’ve been lumbered. I tried to get out of it every way I… READ MORE
January 6, 2023
Alex Zucker— The influence of Topolʼs early days as a poet are evident in his prose. An urgent propulsiveness, the vivid depiction of oppressive atmospheres interspersed with candescent moments of… READ MORE
October 10, 2022
A selection of Yale University Press titles related to Indigenous resistance, literature, and history. Many titles in this reading list are from The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians… READ MORE
September 30, 2022
Yale University Press is pleased to join with all those who celebrate International Translation Day on September 30, 2022 to recognize and appreciate the vital role that translators play in… READ MORE
September 15, 2022
Sumana Roy— It seems so natural, in dreams and folk tales, that humans should be reborn as trees. On a bus to nowhere, I sat next to a man who… READ MORE
December 16, 2021
Earlier this year, Yale University Press published the excerpt below from The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. We are revisiting this piece today… READ MORE
We All Lose When We Fail Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
