The Meaning of Faith and Reason
March 8, 2014
Follow @yaleRELIbooks See all 20% off titles in our YUP Backlist History promotion! It’s good practice, if you are going to argue with something, to aim at the best… READ MORE
Category: Humanities
The Deadly Dinner Party: Real-Life Medical Detective Mysteries
March 7, 2014
Follow @yaleSCIbooks We can’t get enough of detective mysteries. On television, police or medical procedurals and dramas such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House M.D., Sherlock, and Elementary, draw us… READ MORE
Extraordinary Stories of Everyday Lives
March 5, 2014
Everyday Jews was first published in Poland in 1935 by Yehoshue Perle in an attempt to document the daily experiences of Polish Jews. It is a story of love and… READ MORE
Carl Phillips Chooses Ansel Elkins as 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets Winner
Yale University Press is pleased to announce a winner in the 2014 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, prize-winning and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips, has chosen Ansel… READ MORE
How to Learn Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes
March 3, 2014
Follow @WRLBooks “Beginning of modern thought.” Witold Gombrowicz starts his guide through modern philosophy with characteristic concision. The “First Lesson” is a description of Kant’s contributions to philosophy, with some… READ MORE
Terry Eagleton: An Intellectual and Cultural Nomad
March 2, 2014
Fifty years ago, Terry Eagleton—one of the foremost and polemical cultural critics and literary theorists—was appointed Fellow in English at Jesus College, Cambridge shortly after graduating from the university himself… READ MORE
How Technology Turned the Entertainment Industry Into America’s Ambassador to the World
January 31, 2014
People who watch U.S. television shows, attend Hollywood movies, and listen to pop music can’t help but believe that we are a nation in which we have sex with strangers… READ MORE
YUP Director John Donatich Interviews Leo Damrosch on Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift, although widely remembered as both an author and a public figure, remains quite enigmatic today. Leo Damrosch, author of the New York Times Notable Book of 2013, Jonathan Swift:… READ MORE
For the Introspective Writer
January 4, 2014
No one sings as purely as those who inhabit the deepest hell—what we take to be the song of angels is their song. —Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena… READ MORE
Yale Press Podcast Episode 29: Amos Oz & Fania Oz-Salzberger
December 7, 2012
Listen to the podcast interview for Jews and Words on iTunes! Somewhere between the What is Jewish Culture? event at the 92Y launching the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and… READ MORE
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