May 2, 2024
Richard Sieburth— Autobiography and autofiction are all the rage in France, viz. Annie Ernaux’s recent Nobel Prize. Anticipating this trend, ex-surrealist Michel Leiris devoted much of his literary career to… READ MORE
April 20, 2024
Mike Jay— The first sustained interaction between the modern West and the hashish eaters of the Arab world occurred during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, which culminated in a… READ MORE
April 11, 2024
Iryna Vushko— I was putting the finishing touch on my book on the history of places and people from a hundred years ago and was watching an apocalypse of unprecedented… READ MORE
March 29, 2024
Robert Gildea— [T]here was something of a gender revolution. Miners’ wives had been transformed by the strike. They had been involved in setting up local support groups, which came together… READ MORE
March 27, 2024
Chloe Wigston Smith— Picture this: a young girl sits next to a fireplace, its dim glow brightened by warm candlelight. Her head is bent, and her eyes study the piece… READ MORE
March 14, 2024
Marci Shore— The Sky Turns Black from Smoke Close to midnight on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, twenty-one-year-old Misha Martynenko, reeking of smoke, returned to the Kiev apartment he shared with… READ MORE
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
February 16, 2024
Neil Duncanson— Harry Edward took a deep breath, pushed his spikes into the holes he’d just dug in the sodden cinder track and dropped his head. A vos marques. It… 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
January 24, 2024
Lucy Wooding— There was no such thing as ‘Tudor England’ until long after the last Tudor was dead.1 This epoch was created in retrospect, pieced together out of countless memories… READ MORE
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