Devorah Baum on Marriage, Love, and Divorce
February 14, 2024
Devorah Baum, author of On Marriage, talks with us about the proposal that sparked her writing on marriage, the woes of modern dating, and the important role divorce plays in… READ MORE
February 14, 2024
Devorah Baum, author of On Marriage, talks with us about the proposal that sparked her writing on marriage, the woes of modern dating, and the important role divorce plays in… READ MORE
October 2, 2023
Michael H. Kater— Walter Jens was the first among a group of young West German novelists who attempted to come to grips with the Third Reich. As a twenty-seven-year-old, in 1950… 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