Posts Tagged ‘Yale University Press’
Sep.
06
2024
Yale Rep on BookNotes
Award-winning dramaturg, playwright, and novelist James Magruder is coming out with his first nonfiction work, The Play’s the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016). I spoke to Jim for BookNotes.
Nov.
05
2022
A cautionary tale for democracy on BookNotes
The French Revolution is celebrated as a founding moment of modern representative government. But in her book Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals Laura Mason, a teaching professor in history at Johns Hopkins University, explains how an elected government’s assault on popular democracy and social justice destroyed the republic, and […]
