Books published by Yale University Press

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the 19th and 20th century.

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays

Interviews with women artists connected with the Islamic world and their compelling works that are shaping contemporary art today

An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity

A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region’s influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history

The first major retrospective to emerge from the archive of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, shining important new light on his work

Charting Japan's unique engagement with modernity during the Meiji era, through an extraordinary selection of objects in American collections

The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution