Yale University Press

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

 
By Lee Gutkind  January 23, 2024
Art History

Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

By Mark Polizzotti  January 9, 2024
University Press Week

This Year’s University Press Week Showcases Work That Sparks Conversation

By Jane Bunker  November 13, 2023
Love and Romance

Love and Looking: On What We (Don’t) See Together

By Devorah Baum  November 2, 2023
Art History

Visibility and Erasure: Julia Bryan-Wilson on the Artist Louise Nevelson

By Jon Raymond  July 7, 2023
Ukraine

Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
Archives

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

By Alan Mikhail  January 23, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Carl Phillips on the Value of Silence for Writers

By Carl Phillips  October 28, 2022
Cold War

How Gorbachev’s Reforms Triggered the Destabilization of the Soviet Union

By Vladislav M. Zubok  October 17, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Joy Harjo on Listening and Writing with Intention

By Joy Harjo  October 14, 2022
Cundill History Prize

How the Fight for NATO Expansion Established the Future of Global Politics

By M. E. Sarotte  October 14, 2022
Illustrations

Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

By Andreas Kilcher  June 1, 2022
Ukraine

Read from The Orphanage, a Novel of Occupied Ukraine

By Serhiy Zhadan  March 4, 2022
The 2021 Cundill History Prize

On the Holocaust’s Impact on Survivors’ Early Childhood and Memory

By Rebecca Clifford  October 19, 2021
Artists

Eileen Myles on Following Joan Mitchell’s Path Through New York City

By Eileen Myles  September 23, 2021
Indie Booksellers Recommend

Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This August

By Literary Hub  August 6, 2021
Sociology

To Be Popular You Must Already Be Popular: On the Dangers of the Bandwagon Effect

By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein  August 5, 2021
Gentrification

Protecting the “Holy City”
of Williamsburg

By Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper  May 18, 2021
On Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
Philosophy

What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

By Simon Critchley  April 27, 2021
Daily Fiction

Voices of the Lost

By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 19, 2021
Travel

Cees Nooteboom Takes a Wintry Ride Through Venice

By Cees Nooteboom  November 6, 2020
Daily Fiction

Invisible Ink

By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 29, 2020
Journalism

The Imperious Magnate Who Built a Magazine Empire

By Stephen Bates  October 27, 2020
The West

On the Early American Art
of Getting Lost

By Jon T. Coleman  August 20, 2020
Daily Fiction

Stories for the Years

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 10, 2020
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