CAESAR Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, Cry ‘Caesar!’ Speak; Caesar is turn’d to hear. SOOTHSAYER Beware the ides of March. Some might say that the death of Caesar on this day in 44 BCE was the
The wait for the National Book Critics Circle Awards is over, and YUP is pleased to announce and congratulate Clare Cavanagh for her award in the Criticism category for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland and the West. Her exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia
It’s hard to imagine a history of women in American film and literature without remembering Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. First published in 1936, iconic female characters like Scarlett O’Hara and Melanie Hamilton Wilkes are fixed in our memory; the book itself was a Pulitzer-Prize winner and remains one
We have a winner for our Representing Justice contest! Congratulations to Cynthia (and her aspiring artist-judge daughter, Ashley) for this winning portrayal of Justice!! Swiftly delivered from the gavel on-high, Justice is found for this particular criminal with what we can only guess will be a hard times sentence
Congratulations to YUP authors, Robert Brustein and Roberto González Echevarría, who will be at the White House today to receive the National Medal of the Arts and National Humanities Medal, respectively, from President Obama. See the full honors roll call from USA Today.
Last Thursday, Adam Bradley, one of the editors of The Anthology of Rap, appeared on Minnesota Public Radio alongside Mark Anthony Neal and Toki Wright to discuss the past 30 years of rap and hip-hop and how they have risen to become the cultural tour-de-force we know today. Meanwhile, the
After publishing not one, but two Anthologies of Graphic Fiction, noted cartoonist and illustrator, Ivan Brunetti, is back with Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, an instructional how-to for cartooning as an art of self-expression. In this book, he presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through
As previously announced, Clare Cavanagh is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West. In the lead-up to the March 10 announcement of the winners, the NBCC blog “Critical Mass” has a board member discussing each
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We at YUP would like to wish a hearty congratulations to Clare Cavanagh for becoming a finalist for a 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category. Her “rigorously thoughtful” book, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, covers the intersection of poetry, national life,