Conventional narratives of evolution emphasize that organisms have evolved over time through the gradual accumulation of many genetic mutations, but for some researchers, this approach does not satisfactorily explain true biological novelty. This view, explored by Dr. Marc W. Kirschner and Dr. John C. Gerhart in The Plausibility of Life,
Yesterday “The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950” opened at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art. This is the first exhibition to explore in depth the development of modernism in the American West. Although this movement has traditionally been associated with the East Coast, pioneering artists such as Ansel Adams
Edmund White reviewed Tennessee Williams’ Notebooks in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, which tracks Williams’ growth as a writer from his undergraduate years to his early successes of “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” to his troubled descent into alcohol and drug addiction. Although continually plagued
As a recent NPR report on new therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder explains, PTSD is one of the most controversial and widely-reaching mental health conditions of the 21st century. PTSD is often thought to be confined to veterans, but it can arise from any traumatic experience, and it also affects
Tennessee Williams’s later life often proved mysterious to his colleagues and critics; he was infamous for being erratic, and was lambasted by critics who longed for his earlier days. His Notebooks, recently published for the first time in an annotated edition by the Yale University Press, offer insight into the
A new retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark has just opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The New York Times calls the exhibit “excellent” and “heavenly,” a wonderful celebration of the too-short career of “this charismatic Pied Piper of experimentalism from the frontier days of what came to be called
Today is the birthday centenary of W.H. Auden, one of the most famed poets of the twentieth century. Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity, published by Yale University Press, is the first book to explore in depth how the poet turned to faith for guidance in his art and his life,
Hitchcock’s Music was recently featured on the website of Austin, Texas radio station KUT 90.5. In a blog entry for the show “Aelli Unleashed,” host John Aelli wrote: It is simply one of the most stimulating, informative, and insightful books I’ve read in a long while…Jack Sullivan makes this highly
Posted by Chris Gondek, Producer/Host of the Yale Press Podcast Episode 4 turned out to be a theme show, and I say turned out because I don’t believe there was a conscious choice to pick a series of books built around a theme. Although the episode has been titled “America”,