Yale University Press Podcast
Latest Episodes
Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman on Architecture
The two distinguished historians and critics of architecture compare the approaches they take in their new books.
Understanding Art Through the History of Pigments
A Conversation with Kelly Grovier about his new book, The Art of Colour.
The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
A Conversation with artist Natalie Frank and translator Jack Zipes
The Unknown Story of American Slavers
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
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
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
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
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
A conversation about the 17th-century Spanish painter, famously depicted by Diego Velzquez, on his own terms.
The Original Psychonauts
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.