Author article by biographer Andrew C. Thompson: A Portrait of George II
Andrew C. Thompson’s new biography of George II, Britain’s last foreign-born monarch, presents a detailed portrait of the king as a vital part of the governing process and as a dynastic patriarch, patron of the arts and political survivor. In this exclusive article, Thompson discusses the particular challenges of writing a biography of a monarch, … Read more
Books from the world’s most prestigious Museums and Art Galleries (Part Four: Jewish Museum, New York)
Every Friday on this blog, we take an in-depth look at one of the Yale University Press’s world-famous museum partners. In the fourth part in our series, we will be visiting the Jewish Museum of New York, home to one of the largest collections of Jewish art in the world, amounting to 4,000 years of … Read more
Holiday Reads: Dubai and Vietnam
As we start to consider our Summer holidays, we take a look at a selection of books on countries from around the world. This week: two books focusing on very different destinations – Dubai and Vietnam. If you live in the United Kingdom, you will have noticed that the weather has become considerably worse in the last … Read more
Leila Ahmed visits the UK to promote her new book on the resurgence of the Muslim veil
Leila Ahmed is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Muslim women. Her new book A Quiet Revolution (published this month) is a probing study of the Muslim veil’s recent return that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam’s place in the West today. This week Leila Ahmed is visiting the UK to promote the book. If … Read more
Happy Birthday Bob! New book explores the life and career of Bob Dylan
As Bob Dylan turns 70, Yale University Press publishes a new biography exploring the many facets of the great singer-songwriter’s life and career. Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American music and cultural history, lauded by Time Magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century: [Dylan's music] became part … Read more
