Dear Booksellers and Librarians,
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| John Donatich | |
When I first arrived at Yale University Press nearly twenty years ago, our book Taliban, by Ahmed Rashid (soon to be in its third edition), had recently been #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. I remember thinking how rich and relevant Yale's list was, and what a fulfillment of our mission it was to inform the conversation around current events with peer-reviewed, scholarly publications that take care to be accessible--or, as a recent book review in the Wall Street Journal put it, "Impeccable scholarship at the service of absolute lucidity, resulting in work that can be enjoyed inside and outside the academy."
Relevance is one of the essential ways in which we measure our impact. Current books like M.E. Sarotte's Not One Inch, Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok, and The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, one of Ukraine's most important poet/novelists, continue that conversation in essential ways. Our books on the pandemic by Frank M. Snowden, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and John Fabian Witt have also proved essential to our understanding of current predicaments.
We are proud of the series we publish, including the award-winning Jewish Lives, and are excited to announce two upcoming series of short, interpretive biographies that accumulate toward a new way of telling particular histories: Ancient Lives and Black Lives. Our Yale Series of Younger Poets, the oldest annual literary prize in the United States, offers the bestselling Crush by Richard Siken and the National Book Award finalist What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey. Our Margellos World Republic of Letters series in literary translation has now brought to English-language readers the work of writers from over twenty languages and diverse cultures, including Patrick Modiano, Adonis, and Can Xue.
We are also grateful for the recent successes of our art list, from the Catwalk series of haute couture runways to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition catalogue of Alice Neel and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art catalogue of the Joan Mitchell show. Our art and architecture publishing program includes beautiful exhibition catalogues issuing from the world's finest museums, important and diverse monographs, critical anthologies, catalogues raisonnés, and much more.
We appreciate our bookselling and librarian partners for the work they do in helping us fulfill our mission to disseminate knowledge, and I am pleased to present you with highlights from our Spring/Summer 2022 list.
Sincerely,
John Donatich
Director, Yale University Press