Author Jennifer Michael Hecht on Suicide
April 30, 2014
Follow @freudeinstein (Jennifer Michael Hecht) There is a certain myth to the idea that most suicides occur around the holidays; in fact, it’s usually in spring and summer that see… READ MORE
Category: Podcast
The Political Decisions that Keep Guantanamo Bay Open
March 18, 2014
Listen to the podcast interview for The Terror Courts on iTunesU! Follow @JessBravin On the Yale Press Podcast, in conversation with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, author Jess Bravin revealed: “It… READ MORE
And the 2013 NBCC Biography Award Goes to… YUP Author Leo Damrosch!
March 13, 2014
In January, the National Book Critics Circle announced their annual award finalists for the 2013 publishing year. Among those honored for book reviewing, lifetime achievement, and books published in a… READ MORE
YUP Director John Donatich Interviews Leo Damrosch on Jonathan Swift
January 31, 2014
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
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
How We Think about Wall Street
December 4, 2012
Read an excerpt from Wall Street Last month Strike Debt, an offshoot group of Occupy Wall Street, began buying strangers’ debt in order to make it disappear. Another manifestation called Occupy… READ MORE
The Daily Show and More Interviews with Trita Parsi on Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
March 5, 2012
Since the December headlines about U.S.-led sanctions against Iran to President Obama’s statement today that “there is still a window that allows for a diplomatic resolution to this issue”, American-Iranian… READ MORE
Yale Press Podcast Episode 28: Trita Parsi on Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
January 25, 2012
When President Obama took office in 2009, one of his most notable proclamations was his commitment to a more open foreign policy. During the 2008 presidential debates, then-Senator Obama openly… READ MORE
A New Home for the Yale Press Log
July 1, 2011
Welcome to the new home of the Yale Press Log on Wordpress.com! In July, the theme is Global and International Studies, and after the first half of 2011, there is plenty to recount. New books on Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, and southern Africa, by Tim Bird & Alex Marshall, Victoria Clark, Tarek Osman, and Stephen Chan are at the center of our political discussions, and Leila Ahmed’s new history, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America surrounds current controversies on Islamic women’s dress.
Cartooning is an Art: Ivan Brunetti Shows Us Why
April 6, 2011
Ivan Brunetti’s new book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice is making a pretty big splash with a popular, instructional trailer on YouTube and reviews on Drawn!, PopMatters.com, even the Wall Street… READ MORE
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