Ep. 113 – The Traumatic Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
June 2, 2023
Our two guests on this episode of the Yale University Press podcast are Jack Zipes and Natalie Frank; Zipes is a globally recognized expert on fairy tales and folktales, and… READ MORE
June 2, 2023
Our two guests on this episode of the Yale University Press podcast are Jack Zipes and Natalie Frank; Zipes is a globally recognized expert on fairy tales and folktales, and… READ MORE
April 24, 2023
Mark Edmundson— Is it possible for entire societies to grow ill? Can a large population become mentally unstable? William Blake thought so. Blake, the first major English Romantic poet, diagnosed… READ MORE
April 18, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, Mike Jay talks with us about his new book, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Soundcloud
March 24, 2023
Sophus Helle— Enheduana is the first known author in the history of world literature. She was a royal princess and high priestess who lived in the 23rd century BCE in… READ MORE
November 22, 2022
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to author Vincent W. Lloyd about his new book, Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination. In what might be… READ MORE
May 21, 2021
This year Yale University Press published Samuel Johnson, a diverse and accessible selected works of eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man of letters. The following excerpt is a section from one of… READ MORE
May 14, 2021
John Donatich— The recent passing of Theodore Margellos sent me to my bookshelf to look at the Margellos World Republic of Letters volumes lined up side by side. Together, they… READ MORE
April 12, 2021
José María Pérez Fernández and Edward Wilson-Lee— A few days ago, a subsecretary in the newly-installed Italian government led by Mario Draghi tweeted out to followers an inspiring message which… READ MORE
February 22, 2021
Next month, Yale University Press is pleased to publish Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth, a novel that weaves together a series of… READ MORE
February 10, 2021
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen— When in 1656 Rembrandt was forced to declare bankruptcy, a full inventory was made of all of his remaining possessions. Among the paintings, furniture… READ MORE