Books published by Yale University Press

An exploration of the rich history of printmaking at Cleveland’s Karamu House, a center of Black arts, culture, and community since 1915

A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes

An exploration of how the biblical heroine Queen Esther, a symbol of resilience and a figure of immense popularity, was portrayed in seventeenth-century Dutch art

James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit

Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, this book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art

A call to reenvision and de-Westernize French studies and media studies through transmedial examinations of Senegalese cultural production, media practices, and art forms

A novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, by Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano

Drawing on the riches of the Western tradition, Anthony T. Kronman defends a humane conservativism for our enlightened age

How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns of corporeal mutilation of Indian peoples in the Americas

A psychoanalyst’s sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients

A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the early modern world

A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars

An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell

A sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South, detailing the racial and economic inequities of rape law and the resistance of ordinary women

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy

An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire

The next phase of the war over reproduction in America

How the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possible

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South

How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian

A deep dive into the importance of daily communication and how we can harness its power to create a better life

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world

The first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France—and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime

The last work by “one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy” (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private life

From Homer’s epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own—and humans may not always control the narratives we create

For the first time, this book locates her, ‘centre frame’, focusing on her importance as a painter, designer and decorator. One of the first British artists to produce fully-resolved abstract paintings, and a driving force behind the Omega Workshops, of which she was a co-founder and director, Bell’s work was often collaborative and anonymous.   Bell provided a role model for her younger sister, Virginia Woolf, in her determination to operate professionally on an equal footing with the best male artists of her generation. New research and previously unpublished correspondence establishes how she deployed her skills as a networker, hostess and administrator, operating ‘beneath the radar’ through her brother and fellow artists, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. The book outlines the specific prejudices and obstacles that Bell encountered as a professional woman in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her self-deprecating tactics, championing the work of the men in her circle and even allowing them to take credit for her own creative practice while providing the invisible labour of a housekeeper, caregiver and muse will resonate for feminists today.

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history