Gertrude Stein was an American, but her presence in Europe, notably her adopted home of Paris, was incredibly influential. Not everyone was a close friend of Picasso and Hemingway, a literary avant-garde comparable to Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, collected paintings by Matisse, or the subject of Carl Van Vechten’s
Earlier this week, Melissa Harris-Perry, author of the forthcoming Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, was on her way into New Haven to meet with YUP about her book, tweeting as she made the journey; her visit even hit the blogosphere at Now Rise Books blog. In
Ivan Lett I decided to take this column on the road and pay a visit to the very office where so many of the books I gush about begin their lives. Around London, like New York, a prideful smile spreads across my face when I see advertisements for upcoming shows
Accompanying last week’s opening of “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has already seen reviews in outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and “Unbeige“, we neglected to mention this video interview with curator and catalog author, Andrew Bolton, taped for “Morning T”
Headlines on China’s innovation have been popping up this week, as the world wonders what the next big economic development will be for the country, which recently surpassed Japan for the #2 rank in GDP. Both The Economist and Reuters have run stories taking insight from a new book, The
It’s not every day that you get a reflection on life, religion, and spirituality from a professor of computer science. Frankly, you might expect him to launch into a tirade on his favorite programming language. But David Gelernter is certainly no ordinary tech guru. When Gelernter sat down for his
We’ve teased for months, but the wait is finally over: today, the exhibition “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Organized by Costume Institute curator, Andrew Bolton, author of YUP’s accompanying catalog, the show features approximately one hundred examples will be on view, including signature designs
YUP’s Fall 2011 catalog, covering new books to be published from August 2011 to January 2012 is now available online! See our forthcoming books in biography, art, architecture, history, literature, psychology, environmenal studies, featuring authors such as David Margolick, Melissa Harris-Perry, Tim Jeal, Paul Starr, Nigel Warburton, Garry Wills, and
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, few people in America had heard of the Taliban. And in 2000, when Ahmed Rashid wrote the bestselling Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, based on his experiences as a journalist covering the civil war in Afghanistan for twenty years,
Five years ago, President George W. Bush set into law Jewish American Heritage Month that is now observed and celebrated every May in the U.S. According to the government website, http://jewishheritagemonth.gov: The month of May was chosen due to the highly successful celebration of the 350th Anniversary of American Jewish