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Donald Worster—
Over most of my life, going back to a Christian youth, I have been in the grip of what Daniel Lord Smail has called “sacred history.”1 He means a history strongly influenced ...
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to historian Hilary Davidson about Jane Austen, Bridgerton, and Davidson’s new book A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins.
class...Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett—
Headhunting is not the first association that most people would make with the Age of Enlightenment. Indeed, many might never associate headhunting with the so-called Age of Reason. Yet human heads were hunted, stolen, and sold, and this sordid traffick deserves to be considered alongside the more well-known trades t...
Maureen Meister — For many years, I taught a two-semester course on the history of Western art, and with the coming of spring, I enjoyed introducing students to Piet Mondrian and his concept of “dynamic equilibrium.” When he painted that big red square on the upper right portion of his canvas, it never got away from the smaller blue quadrangle on the lower le...
Montevideo is a metafictional tale, by premier Spanish author Enrique Vila-Matas, that explores the limits and possibilities of literature. In this Q&A, translators Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott discuss the author’s writing style and the process of co-translation.
What particular translation challenges arose as you brought Vila-Matas’s
