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The Magic of Milk
A peasant’s utopia, as imagined in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, includes a mountain of grated Parmesan cheese. Peasants do nothing else except make macaroni and ravioli all day long in the imagined...
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Rediscovering Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome
There is a certain meta quality to uncovering wayward pieces of art: it is an art itself to uncover and identify a centuries-old painting with its original artist. The sharp eyes of conservationists...
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Underneath the Hollywood Sign
About a hundred years ago in Los Angeles, some of its boarding houses hung signs that read, “No Jews, actors, or dogs allowed.” Movies entertained the lower classes only, and major film companies...
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Touring Rome’s Past
R.J.B. Bosworth’s Whispering City: Rome and Its Histories is as much of a guidebook to Rome’s recent past as it is a history. It manages to keep us partially conscious of Rome’s present while...
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Modern Styles and Methods in Maine Moderns
Read it on our new blog! Paul Strand, a friend of Alfred Stieglitz and his wife, Georgia O’Keeffe, visited O’Keeffe while she was away in New Mexico. Stieglitz had written O’Keeffe on June 27, 1931...
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To London, with Love: Bloody Mary Summer
Read it on our new blog! Ivan Lett When Emperor Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in June 1519, his influential position became incredibly important for the strength of his family. Only three...
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A Little Less Unknown: Bob Dylan
Read it on our new blog! Bob Dylan does not want us to know who he is. He recently turned seventy, and if no one has figured him out by now, nobody probably ever will. The Andy Warhol Factory’s Screen...
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Twas the Night Before Xmas (in July) and the Yale Press Log is stirring...
about our new location! We've got a completely new look and format that we can't wait to show you! In July, the theme is Global and International Studies, and after the first half of 2011, there is...
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Tonight on The Colbert Report: Timothy Garton Ash
Read it on our new blog! This evening, Stephen Colbert will talk with Timothy Garton Ash, author of Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name on Comedy Central’s Colbert...
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Do Words Hurt Worse than Sticks and Stones? On Public Television They Do
Read it on our new blog! Speaking of television interviews: who remembers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy on The Dick Cavett Show? It happened in January 1980, in the lead-up to Hustler Magazine vs....
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