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”,
February is American Heart Month, a time to promote awareness of the risks, causes and ways to reduce the chance of developing heart disease, which is currently the leading cause of death in the United States. More than 70 million Americans have some form of heart disease. It is important
Jack Sullivan, author of Hitchcock’s Music, was interviewed by Scott Simon last Saturday for NPR’s Weekend Edition. For over fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock created films with soundtracks of compelling and unforgettable music. The soundtracks to movies such as “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest,” and “Rebecca” influenced the atmosphere, characterization and plotlines
With the barometer below freezing, it may be too early for most of us to think about our spring wardrobe, let alone next fall’s. But designers are two steps ahead of the general public, and are currently showing their fall 2007 collections at Fashion Week in New York City. Yale
This March Yale University Press will publish a paperback edition of Francis Fukyama’s America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and Neoconservatism, which has been selected as a CHOICE outstanding academic book for 2007. This edition features a new foreword by the author, who argues that the neoconservatives have learned nothing
Rev. Robert Drinan, an internationally known human rights advocate, Jesuit priest, lawyer, and former U.S. Congressman, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 86. Father Drinan, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, authored thirteen books, including Can God and Caesar Coexist?: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law and
Four books by Yale University Press authors were recently honored by the Jewish Book Council in its 2006 National Jewish Book Awards program. Caviar and Ashes by Marci Shore has been selected as a winner in the Eastern European Studies category. Jon Levenson’s Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel has