Ep. 137 – Interacting with Color
June 13, 2024
Fritz Horstman, the education director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, talks us through some of the ideas in his new book, Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to… READ MORE
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Ep. 136 – All About Portraits
May 30, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Alison Manges Nogueira and Kathryn Calley Galitz, both of whom work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and… READ MORE
Ep. 135 – What’s in a Building?
April 30, 2024
In this episode, British architect Charles Holland explores the methods and importance of experiencing architecture in our everyday lives, the subject of his new book, How to Enjoy Architecture: A… READ MORE
Ep. 134—The Therapeutic Benefits of Reading Greek Tragedy
April 15, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with award-winning classicist Edith Hall about her new book, Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me. Subscribe: Apple… READ MORE
Ep. 133 – The Search for a Forgotten Architect
March 28, 2024
In this episode, curators and archivists William Whitaker and Heather Isbell Schumacher discuss the life and career of Minerva Parker Nichols, the subject of their new book, Minerva Parker Nichols:… READ MORE
Ep. 132 — Building Pluralistic Campuses with Michael S. Roth
March 12, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth about the history of the student, current crises facing higher education, and building… READ MORE
Ep. 131 – The History of Weaving at Black Mountain College
February 28, 2024
The artists, educators, independent scholars, and experts on the history of Black Mountain College Michael Beggs and Julie J. Thomson joined forces and produced the exhibition (at the Black Mountain… READ MORE
Ep. 130 — Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
January 15, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Philip Freeman about Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor. Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor is part of the Ancient Lives Series,… READ MORE
Ep. 129 — Mark Polizzotti on Why Surrealism Matters
January 10, 2024
Ever insightful and ever eloquent, the writer and translator Mark Polizzotti discusses his new book, Why Surrealism Matters, at the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Spotify | Soundcloud
Ep. 128 — The Remarkable Stories of Women in British Intelligence
December 14, 2023
From spies in the Belgian network “La Dame Blanche,” knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Helen Fry shows just how… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life