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Author Video: Terry Eagleton discusses the philosophy of literature, fiction...
In The Event of Literature Terry Eagleton returns to the discipline to which he has devoted his career: literary theory. Here, in the final part of our interview with the literary critic and Marxist,...
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The Future of Books and Reading: Extract from ‘The Future of History’ by John...
The Future of History The name John Lukacs is known to history students the world over (he has written more than thirty books on the topic, including the acclaimed Five Days in London and A New...
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A History of Women Readers: Belinda Jack discusses the relationship between...
Belinda Jack’s The Woman Reader traces the extraordinary history of women’s reading across the millennia. At the same time it tells a wide range of stories about the often entrenched resistance to...
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The Power Struggle of the Divided Brain: Extract from ‘The Master and His...
The Master and His Emissary Originally published in 2009 Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary explores the differences between the brain’s right and left hemispheres and their effects on...
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‘Narrative History and the Collapsing of Historical Distance’ by Christopher...
After reading Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America, recently published by Yale University Press as part of the ‘New Directions in Narrative History’ series,...
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‘Is the Secularization of America Really a Big Deal?’ by Brent Nongbri
A recent poll conducted in the US indicated that a growing proportion of adults have no religious affiliation, but does this matter? Brent Nongbri, the author of Before Religion, which was published...
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‘On the Tradition of Jewish Humour’. An Extract from ‘Jews and Words’ by Amos...
The 61st annual Jewish Book Week is currently underway in London, this year the event features a number of appearances from Yale University Press authors, including Frederic Raphael, Judith Walkowitz...
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The Great Agnostic and First American Male Feminist
Susan Jacoby, author of the new biography, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, here reflects on the significance of Ingersoll as a religious and philosophical thinker,...
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‘Bonsai: A Patient Art’. A collection of living Bonsai masterpieces from the...
Bonsai: A Patient Art, published by Yale University Press, presents a collection of living Bonsai masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Each patiently nurtured tree...
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‘Making Sense of Demonic Possession’. Author Article by Brian Levack
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions,...
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Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in...
Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art offers a new understanding of the aesthetics and politics of postwar European and American...
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‘This diary must never be printed!’: Playwright August Strindberg and The Occult
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He is also frequently accused of, amongst other things, misogyny,...
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Friendship: An Interview with Philosopher A. C. Grayling
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed...
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Socrates the Gadfly
‘The wisdom of men is little or nothing’ – Socrates, from Plato’s account of his trial. Yale University Press’ Little Histories collection is a family of books that takes a closer look at some of the...
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Confucius: Living Together in Harmony
Confucius – or K’ung Fut-zu, as he was called in Chinese – was a philosopher who proposed some ideas that seem very simple, which might be the reason why he is still so popular today. What he taught...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language Games
‘Passionate, profound, intense and dominating’, was how Bertrand Russell described the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. If you had found yourself at one of the seminars Ludwig held in Cambridge in 1940...
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Bertrand Russell: Is the Present King of France Bald?
On this day in 1872, a boy was born in Wales who would later grow up to pose many perplexing questions to the rest of the world. His name was Bertrand Russell, and he is remembered today as an...
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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt
How could humans have committed all those atrocities that characterised the Holocaust? Were they all monsters and sadists, delighting in the pain of others? Or, more terrifyingly, were they just people...
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‘Life Without Pain Has No Meaning’: Arthur Schopenhauer
If you had to draw up a list of philosophers you’d least like to get stuck next to at a dinner party, it would probably be wise to place Arthur Schopenhauer’s name at the very top. Schopenhauer did not...
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The Philosophy of Friendship
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed...
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