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The Chronicle of Higher Education: “'Yale and Slavery' is not just a book about Yale: It is [...] a deeply researched panorama of America’s psychic and literal investment in the enslavement of Native American and African people.”
Reckoning With Yale’s Ties to Slavery
An institutional history of the “peculiar institution.”
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December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"The exhibition, filled with beautiful, illuminating juxtapositions of their work and accompanied by an expansive, scholarly catalog, is superb."
#Manet #Morisot #artbooks #Impressionism
‘Manet & Morisot’ Review: An Artistic Relationship Reframed
San Francisco’s Legion of Honor stages a superb exhibition that reveals the ways in which the two French painters influenced each other over decades in the late 19th century.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Did I mention the images? Gorgeous, and so many of them, which so fits Asawa’s generous spirit." —Lisa Yin Zhang, Hyperallergic, "15 Art Books to Gift this Holiday Season"
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
hyperallergic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Not to miss for Native American Heritage Month: The Atlantic features an article by Ned Blackhawk, author of "The Rediscovery of America".
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Engrossing... [Mr. Gottlieb] focuses on what is most essential and interesting in [Wittgenstein's] work and life... It is rare to find a book that you can open at random and almost always find something that piques your interest."—Julian Baggini, Wall Street Journal.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Asymptote reviews 'Montevideo', declaring: “Enrique Vila-Matas, famous for his erudite metafiction, has further solidified his giant status with Montevideo.” Read the review below!
What’s New in Translation: November 2025 - Asymptote Blog
New work from India, Serbia, France, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Iran, Spain, Lithuania, Palestine, and the Vietnamese diaspora!
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November 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
An award-winning astrophysicist, Andrew H. Jaffe, looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos. The Random Universe, now available.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Photography and the Black Arts Movement shows us "intersections between artistic and liberation movements that span geographic and ideological divides; we also see moments when those ideologies clash, sparking growth and change."
#artbooks #photography
A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement
“Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., features some 150 photographs and artworks
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November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Recently featured on Wired's Tech Support, Ned Blackhawk's NBA award-winning book, The Rediscovery of America, reframes U.S. history with a spotlight on Indigenous peoples. 

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November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Literary Hub gives this Ismailov's "We Computers" the lead spot in its roundup of “17 Great Books in Translation from University Presses". Read more below!
Reading Around the World: 17 Great Books in Translation From University Presses
Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A 2025 National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature, We Computers is "A genre-blending, time-bending, poetic novel." (Financial Times)

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November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Among the standouts: Jean Paul Gaultier: The Complete Collections by Laird Borrelli-Persson and Marie-Laure Bernadac's Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois, trans. by Lauren Elkin.
#artbooks #bestof2025
8 Standout Art Books to Gift (or Keep) This Season | Artnet News
A curated guide to the best art books of 2025, featuring 8 standout titles spanning architecture, art, fashion, and downtown culture.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Don't miss New Oxford Review's latest review of Eire's "fascinating" book, "They Flew"!
Motives of Credibility: The Miracles of the Saints | New Oxford Review
www.newoxfordreview.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"A full-bodied portrait of Baker.... Hanna Diamond has established one thing for all time: that Josephine Baker was a world-class heroine."—Bruce Bawer, The American Spectator

Read the full review of "Josephine Baker's Secret War" now!
The Real Josephine Baker – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Josephine Baker’s Secret War By Hanna Diamond Yale University Press, 352 pages, $35 Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name. Before picking up Hanna…
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November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This New York Times bestselling Little History brings the American saga to life. The perfect gift for curious minds of all ages. 

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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“Tremendously funny and charming, and one of the most original, sideways explorations of how AI will affect literary authorship and innovation," writes Celine Nguyen for "Personal Canon", on Ismailov's We Computers.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A quietly powerful exploration of memory and forgetting, from one of France’s leading feminist public intellectuals.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"[A] short, shrewd biography of the legendary composer/lyricist . . . An indispensable supplement to our understanding of a musical theater giant."—Kirkus Reviews in a starred review of Okrent's "Stephen Sondheim".
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"It’s hard to imagine a more exhaustive or authoritative work on this battle."—Rich Lowry of the National Review, on Martin and Parker's "Armada".
England’s Great Triumph over the Spanish Armada | National Review
The attempt by the Spanish Armada to take England was one of the most important events of the early modern period.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Nineteenth Century Magazine features a glowing review of "Charles J. Connick" this week, calling Cormack's book "a thorough and masterful telling of Connick's artistic journey and his legacy."
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In its latest issue, The Hudson Review runs an extraordinarily positive review of Damrosch's "Storyteller." David Mason writes that "Storyteller is thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated, [...] deeply moving in its shape and detail."
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Very exciting to have 2 books on the WSJ's architecture gift book list: Christine Casey's Architecture and Artifice and Neil Levine's Architecture for Reading in Public!
#architecturebooks #giftbooks 
Holiday Gift Books: Architecture
A tribute to the genius of a Renaissance mind, a positively fishy story of coastal design and more well-built selections.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Congratulations to our author Daniel H. Weiss, newly appointed director of the Philadelphia Art Museum. His book Why the Museum Matters is a reflection on the values, and value, of museums and their place in our cultural future.
Why the Museum Matters
A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
'Tis the season for gifts 🎁 and deals! Our ❄️ Winter sale ❄️ starts today. Save 30% off thousands of titles with discount code GIFT30 through December 5th. See full terms: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/gift30/
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From a trailblazing poet, a trilingual narrative in verse that bears witness to a devastating crime and testifies to the power of collective defiance. Stolen Flower by Irma Pineda, now available.
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM