Episodes

An interview with Francesco Dal Co, author of the new book Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument, about the history of this famed museum on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.

Yale University Press director John Donatich and Anthony Kronman discuss religion, philosophy, and what it means to be a born-again pagan in society today.

Solitary confinement in prisons, once used sparingly, is now a standard procedure for many prisons in the United States. Keramet Reiter, professor of Criminology, Law and Society and author of 23/7, discusses the impact solitary confinement has on prisoners and what can be done to curb its use.

Laura Trevelyan, journalist and author of The Winchester, discusses the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the story of the family behind the name.

How have humans evolved and what drives this evolution? Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon, author of Future Humans, discusses the science of human evolution.

On this special Halloween edition of the podcast, cultural historian Leo Braudy, author of Haunted, sat down with us to talk about the history of monsters and other scary creatures.

Paul V. Turner, Wattis Professor Art, Emeritus, at Stanford University, interviewed by Jessica Holahan about Professor Turner's new book, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco, which delves into the entirety of Wright's built and unbuilt projects in California's Bay Area.

The long-held belief that the Declaration of Independence calls for a small government may not be an accurate assessment. Historian Steve Pincus discusses the meaning of this seminal document as well as its continuing influence in modern politics and American life.

Rutgers professor Joan Marter discusses the recently-published book she edited: Women of Abstract Expressionism, which delves into the lives and artwork of dozens of women artists in America in the 1940s and 1950s who painted in the style that would come to be known as Abstract Expressionism.

Psychiatrist Joel Dimsdale discusses the pathology of Nazi war criminals

In a special edition of the Yale University Press Podcast, we share an episode of The Observatory podcast from Design Observatory. Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss Instagram, logo changes, and the impact of design on your daily life.

Russia expert David Satter talks about the fall of Yeltsin, the rise of Putin, and what lies ahead for Russia and the United States

Journalist and author Richard Conniff talks dinosaurs, the Peabody, and the future of museums on this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast

Abraham Nussbaum discusses why the medical field could be a little more personal and shares stories from his own experiences as a physician.

John Donatich sits down to talk with author and translator Tim Parks about Giacomo Leopardi, writing, and the process of translation.

In this episode, Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, about how we can forestall the rising tide of suicides in the United States and worldwide, combing through the history of suicide to recover the most powerful arguments against the irretrievable act.

In this episode, Leo Damrosch, author of Jonathan Swift: His Life and World, speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, about the story of Swift's life anew, probing holes in the existing evidence to show how the public version of his life - the one accepted until recently - was deliberately misleading.

Jess Bravin, Supreme Court Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has covered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp since its inception reports on the legal, political, and moral issues that have stood in the way of justice. The deplorable story is a chapter in the War on Terror that has never been fully told before. Here, Bravin speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich about his new book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay.

Chris Gondek speaks with (1) film critic Molly Haskell about Gone with the Wind - the book and the film - and the uncanny symbiosis of Margaret Mitchell, David Selznick, and Vivian Leigh, and (2) Joyce Lee Malcolm about the never-before-told story of a New England slave boy turned soldier caught up in the American Revolution.

Chris Gondek sits down with Michael Takiff to discuss his new book, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him. Clinton’s legacy as President of the United States is still very much in the forefront of national media and minds of everyday Americans. Listen to Takiff speak about this oral biography, composed through more than 150 interviews with key figures such as Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw, and many others who can personally testify to the man behind...

Chris Gondek interviews Paul Starr, professor of sociology at Princeton and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Starr's newest book, Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform is out now from Yale University Press; this interview covers the near century-long history and present health care challenges of American presidential administrations, including Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama, as well as reform...

Chris Gondek speaks with the President of the National Iranian American Council and 2010 Grawemeyer Award-winner for Ideas Improving World Order, Trita Parsi returns to the Yale Press Podcast to speak about his new book, A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran. Parsi uncovers the full details of the diplomatic encounters between Washington and Tehran during Obama's early presidency, then discusses whether diplomacy should be the foreign policy approach of choice for the U.S.

Prize-winning novelist Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salberger, a historian of ideas, blend storytelling, humor, and scholarship in this entertaining father-daughter conversation about the essential role of words and books throughout Jewish history.

Host Chris Gondek interviews Godfrey Hodgson about his new book, The Myth of American Exceptionalism and Eric Sundquist about his new book, King's Dream.