Yale University Press Podcast

Yale University Press Podcast


Latest Episodes

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.

The Art of Reading Landscapes with Noah Charney
May 23, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with conservation biologist Noah Charney about his new book, These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes.

Historian of Abolition R. J. M. Blackett on Samuel Ringgold Ward
May 08, 2023

This episode of our podcast features a conversation with historian R.J.M. Blackett about the 19th century newspaper editor, Congregational minister, and temperance advocate Samuel Ringgold Ward. Despi

A conversation with John Darlington about his new book, Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
April 27, 2023

The archaeologist shares compelling stories of ruins and lost civilizations, from the Garamantes of ancient northern Africa to Port Royal, Jamaica to Rapa Nui.

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
April 25, 2023

In this episode, director of Yale University Press, John Donatich, talks with Ned Blackhawk about his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Blackhawk o

David Pullins and Vanessa K. Valdés on Juan de Pareja
April 21, 2023

A conversation about the 17th-century Spanish painter, famously depicted by Diego Velzquez, on his own terms.

The Original Psychonauts
April 18, 2023

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Mike Jay about his new book, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind.