Just to tease everyone a bit more, here is a preview of the lenticular jacket image for our forthcoming book Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art to accompany an exhibition on view at The Met from May
Ivan Lett It is now 65 years to the day that the United Nations held its first General Assembly in London. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allies met repeatedly to establish the goals of the organization, notably its commitment to international peace and cooperation. Fifty-one nations were
David Isenberg is posting excerpts from Laura A. Dickinson‘s Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs on the Huffington Post as a lead-up to his review. Be sure to follow David for more updates.
It’s the return of YUP’s Follow Friday! @bencarp is hanging out with YUP staff at our AHA booth, with tea, coffee, and cookies. @3PennyMovies gets into the quirky lunar folklore of Bernd Bruner’s Moon. @ChrisMacDen is anxiously awaiting his copy of The Atlas of the
What DID happen to Modernism? Bill Marx weighs in for the Arts Fuse in response to Robert Boyers’ review of Gabriel Josipovici‘s What Ever Happened to Modernism? in The New Republic. Modernism itself is no easy subject to define, which both reviewers point out in their articles, and the book
Michael Takiff appeared last week on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown to talk more about his new presidential biography, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him. He discusses the current political issues facing President Obama and makes a few astute comparisons to what President Clinton
The new, Winter 2011 issue of the American Scholar has a selection of entries from our forthcoming book Alfred Kazin’s Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook. As a prominent public intellectual, Kazin’s circle of influence in postwar America was formidable. The letters excerpted in the American Scholar include Kazin’s thoughts
Happy New Year from YUP! To start the year off on the right foot, we will be exploring the theme of resolutions for the month of January. Whether old or new, resolutions aim to bring finality, both to foster new beginnings and bring old stories to a close. Like Janus
Dr. Richard Frank— Recently in my practice I met an 80 year old woman with lung cancer. Her story began only a year earlier, when she underwent surgery at another hospital to remove a stage 1B non-small cell lung cancer. This is an early stage of lung cancer (out of 4
Ivan Lett The nickname l’homme de décembre was given to Napoléon III, largely, it seems, for living in the shadow of his uncle Napoléon I, Emperor of the French. On December 2, 1804, Napoléon I was crowned emperor, changing the political landscape of not only Europe, but the emerging interconnected