‘Converts’ Review: A Mass Movement in Britain Some writers and artists who initially championed boundary-pushing aestheticism later found a spiritual home in the Catholic Church.

"[McDonagh's CONVERTS is a] well-written and extensively researched book about British converts. . . . fascinating." —David Mills, Wall Street Journal

WE COMPUTERS has been shortlisted for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UK) book prize—as featured in Publishing Perspectives. Congrats to the author!

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Don't miss this new review of Jackson's FROM GENGHIS KHAN TO TAMERLANE in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies!

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver A generation ago, many leftists were reading Walter Benjamin.

"By setting aside the myths and trying to understand the actual man, Gordon has made an important contribution to Benjamin studies." —Bettina Berch, @JewishBookCouncil

Alyce Mahon on Dorothea Tanning Podcast Episode · The Great Women Artists · 14 April · 50min

The new episode of the Great Women Artists Podcast features Alyce Mahon in a conversation about the inimitable #DorotheaTanning!
#surrealism #greatwomenartists

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London | The Week in Art The latest news from the art world, every week

Check out this episode of the This Week in Art podcast: Alyce Mahon in conversation with Ben Luke about #DorotheaTanning #surrealism #womenartists #podcast

Sorry-Grateful: 2 New Books Show the Many Sides of Sondheim Daniel Okrent's biography seeks the composer/lyricist's motivation and finds complication and nuance, while Barry Joseph's book asks what Sondheim's games and puzzles can tell us about him.

"A gimlet-eyed view . . . that gets us close to Sondheim the man." @americantheatre.org  reviews STEPHEN SONDHEIM by Daniel Okrent:

Today is the official publication day for my new book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art. It is out in the world, and I would like to thank @yalepress.bsky.social for all they did. I’d also like to tell you a bit about why this publication means so much.

Words, Words, Words - The American Scholar How artists turned the canon against congressional inquisitors

"Garber’s fresh examination [of the Red Scare] in A TREACHEROUS SECRET AGENT provides ample evidence that literature 'baffled, alarmed, and spooked' the men who 'attacked creative artists and boasted of their own expertise.'" —The American Scholar

Are you curious about stories from Indigenous and Native American history, freedom from slavery, or the American Revolution? Don’t miss out on 30% off during the 2026 Organization of American Historians conference, April 16-July 18, 2026. Browse our featured titles: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/oah26/

Moving in the World with the Intention to Love with David Dault Podcast Episode · Radical Sacred · March 25 · 1h 8m

David Dault, author of THE ACCESSORIZED BIBLE, appears on the Radical Sacred podcast discussing the roles the Bible plays as a tool for good and evil. Listen here:

Henry David Thoreau: A Reading List - Yale University Press Ken Burns’s latest documentary, Henry David Thoreau, a three-part series airing on PBS, offers a timely reintroduction to one of the most influential voices in American literature and environmental thought.... READ MORE

Did you watch Henry David Thoreau, Ken Burns’s new PBS documentary? For those who caught the timely reintroduction to one of the most influential voices in American lit and are inspired to go further, read Thoreau's writings:

17 New Design Books We’re Reading This Spring You need these on your coffee table.

"For anyone who has walked through the newly reopened Frick and marveled at how it feels both unchanged and entirely transformed, this is the essential companion."
A Design for Continuity and Change is a design book Elle Decor is reading this spring
#artbooks #Frick

March’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction Christopher Clark’s A Scandal in Königsberg, Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive, and Terry Tempest Williams’ The Glorians all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. …

Okrent's new biography, STEPHEN SONDHEIM, has been featured in LitHub's “March's Best Reviewed Nonfiction”.

‘Mordecai M. Kaplan’ Review: The Faith of the Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan defined God as a spiritual and ethical power within us that urges us to do good. Some thought that was sacrilege.

"Ms. Joselit’s approach [in MORDECAI KAPLAN] provides a compelling introduction to a man who was driven by his giant intellect." —Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal

Rivals of the Landscape | Jenny Uglow The more we learn about J.M. W. Turner and John Constable, the more extraordinary it seems that two such breathtakingly original painters could emerge and flourish at the same time in the British art world.

The New York Review of Books calls Moorby's TURNER AND CONSTABLE a “spirited and absorbing joint biography[,] dispelling myths and showing how the two artists defined and played off against each other.”

Book Review: “Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois” by Marie-Laure Bernadac | Glasstire Lauren Moya Ford reviews Marie-Laure Bernadac’s recent book on the life of Louise Bourgeois, which draws heavily from the artist’s diaries.

"The book’s incorporation of so much of the artist’s unfiltered voice grants readers unprecedented access into her complex and at times shocking inner world."
#louisebourgeois #biography

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…

We're thrilled to share that STEPHEN SONDHEIM: ART ISN'T EASY is listed on @lithub's Independent Press Nonfiction Top 40 Bestsellers! Read more for the full list:

Lost and Found and Random - Jewish Review of Books Are ancient hair coverings Jewish texts? According to a wide-ranging new anthology, yes.

"Such experiences are rarer when searching a database." Read the newest review by @JRBooks on VOLUME 2 of THE POSEN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION.

Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition “Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.

"Raphael... brought warmth and luminosity to didactic devotional images, and he imbued his drawings with the intimate immediacy of a diary entry."
#raphael #metmuseum #artbooks #arthistory

VCU author’s new book sheds light on Nazi women and war crimes In ‘The Accused,’ political science professor Jessica Trisko Darden puts gender, power and justice into context.

THE ACCUSED by Jessica Trisko Darden sheds light on Nazi women and war crimes. See her interview with VCU News: 

We Computers by Hamid Ismailov (Uzbekistan), translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega and published by Yale University Press

#EBRDLiteraturePrize2026

Review: A new Sondheim biography reveals some shockers — and the dark side of genius Daniel Okrent’s new biography, 'Art Isn’t Easy,' pulls back the curtain on Stephen Sondheim’s complicated life, including his vices and romances.

"A brisk, engaging read that avoids hagiography. Okrent highlights the emotional frailties that coexisted with the brilliance and generosity."—Julia Klein, @LATimes

Sixties Surreal This exhibition catalog explores surrealism’s meanings, roles, and influences in the postwar United States, when an unexpected art rebellion mirrored wider social and cultural unrest. Reviewed by Paul Buhle

@RainTaxi reviews Whitney's SIXTIES SURREAL—the exhibition catalog that "will bring any interested reader pleasure, provocation, and insight."

Stalcup on Hornstein (2024) | ncfs

Hornstein's MYTH AND MENAGERIE has received a review in the most recent issue of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies journal.

From The Archive: “Bitter Joy” by Jonathan Gleason – Michigan Quarterly Review From The Archive: “Bitter Joy” by Jonathan GleasonBy amrjoian From Field Guide to Falling Ill by Jonathan Gleason, published by Yale University Press in January 2026. Reproduced by permission. Gleason’s essay, “Bitter Joy,” was published in Michigan Quarterly Review’s issue 61.1, Winter ...

Readers interested in medicine and health won't want to miss this excerpt from Gleason's FIELD GUIDE TO FALLING ILL, now available from Michigan Quarterly Review.

‘A Spy Amongst Us’ Review: An Agent of Union A closer connection between England and Scotland would have benefits. The Scots needed convincing. One man was perfect for the job.

"This exceptional debut should be ranked among the outstanding books of the year."—Crawford Gribben, @WSJ

Mordecai M. Kaplan: Restless Soul Mordecai M. Kaplan: Restless Soul by Jenna Weissman Joselit is an illuminating account of one of the twentieth century's most important and tenacious Jewish leaders.

MORDECAI M. KAPLAN: RESTLESS SOUL is "A well-researched, thoughtful, and deeply human exploration of one of the most consequential figures in recent Jewish history."—Rabbi Marc Katz, @JewishBookCouncil.

It’s true: Never meet your heroes - The Boston Globe New biographies of Stephen Sondheim and Jan Morris reveal two towering talents with sharp edges.

"Excellent. . . . Sondheim emerges as a monstre sacré—French for a super-talented diva—under the pen of biographer Daniel Okrent."—Alex Beam, @BostonGlobe

Ireland Lost Its Magic When It Lost Its Catholic Heritage The collapse of Irish Catholicism is a cautionary tale for every religious institution and the West at large.

Read the Federalist's review of Gibney's A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND, 1500-2000.