Yale University Press Podcast

Yale University Press Podcast


Latest Episodes

Lisa Volpe on the 1955 Photographs of Robert Frank and Todd Webb
October 11, 2023

A conversation with the curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston about the book and exhibition America and Other Myths.

A Global History of Wars
September 20, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with award-winning sociologist Michael Mann about his new book, On Wars.

The World’s First Media Celebrity
August 29, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Sarah Ruden, author of Vergil: The Poets Life (Ancient Lives Series).

Dorothy Liebes, the “Mother of Modern Weaving”
August 08, 2023

In Conversation with Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton.

What Do The Beatles and Measurement Have in Common?
July 21, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with renowned physicist Piero Martin about his new book, The Seven Measures of the World.

California’s History of Slavery and Slave Revolts
June 27, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Jean Pfaelzer, author of California, a Slave State. California, a Slave State is a survey of the untold history of slavery and resist

Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman on Architecture
June 20, 2023

The two distinguished historians and critics of architecture compare the approaches they take in their new books.

Understanding Art Through the History of Pigments
June 03, 2023

A Conversation with Kelly Grovier about his new book, The Art of Colour.

The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
May 30, 2023

A Conversation with artist Natalie Frank and translator Jack Zipes

The Unknown Story of American Slavers
May 30, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk with Sean M. Kelley about his new book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865.