What did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex?
Author Ross Brooks explores how early evolution was shaped by Victorian ideas about gender and sexuality in DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/09/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
Shakespeare Unlimited released its interview with author Marjorie Garber about her book A TREACHEROUS SECRET AGENT.
Listen here: https://www.folger.edu/podcasts/shakespeare-unlimited/shakespeare-and-the-red-scare/
Yale University Press
"Meghan Kobza’s 'The Masquerade' unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London . . . Like most bad ideas, the masquerade came to England from France."
THE MASQUERADE by Meghan Kobza was featured in the Wall Street Journal's round-up "Summer Books: America at 250."
"Minor is a wonderful and unusual writer . . . Brava, Professor Minor."
Kick off the summer with CAROUSEL by Sarah Minor!
Read the full review from Hyperallergic here:
“A deft work of experimental realism . . . This fiction is committed to confronting what actually exists.”
The Compulsive Reader reviews Lauren Elkin's fresh translation of THE IMAGE OF HER by Simone de Beauvoir.
