Yale Press Audio

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation“Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California’s multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely...

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see...

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back againThe life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323–282 BCE), a...

The first integrative history of Nazi mass killing—showing how policies of mass murder were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the warNazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta,...

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that...

From two distinguished experts on election law, an alarming look at how the American presidency could be stolen—by entirely legal meansEven in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, the idea that a couple thousand disorganized protestors...

A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell“[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the...

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux“A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.”—Kirkus ReviewsFor half a century, the French...

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophyThis novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel ComicsFew artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he...

A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes"Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a...

When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned 60, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more...

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English“[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.”—Geneviève Brisac, Le MondeWhile we can feel, know, and study the body, the...

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War IIHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II“A landmark in the political history of journalism.”—Michael Kazin,...

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to ZoomIn this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for...

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and...

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the AeneidThe Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century“Lillian Faderman’s is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the...

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale UniversityAward-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with...