Bigger
A Literary Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300269321,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A biography of "Native Son's" Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism.
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), eludes easy categorization. A v...
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Conjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians
The Off-Modern in American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300267143,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The best essays from America's premier cultural historian.
Jackson Lears has been hailed as "America's premier cultural historian", the "dean of American cultural history", and "one of the few pre-eminent historians of our time". Well known for his...
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The French Seventies
Yale French Studies, Number 143
ISBN: PB: 9780300274240,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now.
Number 143 of Yale French Studies, "The French Seventies", reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a pe...
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Second Chances
Shakespeare and Freud
ISBN: HB: 9780300276367,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imaginati...
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Catullus
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300275292,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries.
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catul...
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Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
ISBN: PB: 9780300276763,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264173,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian.
Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only do...
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Provincials
Postcards from the Peripheries
ISBN: HB: 9780300266139,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world.
Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guide...
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Ward Toward
ISBN: PB: 9780300273922,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273915,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
100 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Yale Younger Poet Cindy Juyoung Ok resolutely searches for hope in spaces of fragmentation.
In the 118th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Ok moves assuredly between spaces – from the psych ward to a prison cell, from divided countries to...
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Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
ISBN: HB: 9780300251159,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre.
In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his coll...
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Who Is Big Brother?
A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
ISBN: HB: 9780300272987,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
224 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 12 black&white illus.
224 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state – our foremost political essayist and author of "Animal Farm and Ni...
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