@PublishersWkly flags the forthcoming monograph Raphael: Sublime Poetry as one of its top ten art and architecture books for Spring 2026!

@hyperallergic calls Yale Press's exhibition catalogue for Hew Locke one of their “Favorite Art Books of 2025."

World Literature Today named Ismailov's We Computers in their list of “75 notable translations of 2025."

Former Vice-President of the European Commission Kristalina Georgieva cites Our Dollar, Your Problem by Kenneth Rogoff as one of her favorite reads of the year over at @WSJ:

“Kolchin’s detailed knowledge of both emancipations and rigorous, even-handed analysis . . . reveals real comparisons . . . [An] extraordinary achievement."—David Moon, Journal of Modern History, in a review of Emancipation.

@WSJ's “Who Read What in 2025,” featuring “50 luminaries from the worlds of business, politics, books, and the arts about what they read—and what they recommend," includes Peter Stothard, author of Horace. Read more here:

Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910 was selected by @hyperallergic as one of the “Favorite Art Books of 2025”. 

In the Wall Street Journal's "Who Read What in 2025", Kristalina Georgieva cites Rogoff's Our Dollar, Your Problem as one of her favorite reads of the year. 

Frederic Church: Global Artist by Tim Barringer was mentioned in @PublishersWkly's Spring 2026  Preview

Don't miss Glenn Loury's in-depth interview with Paul Starr, sociologist and author of American Contradiction.

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective is featured in @PublishersWkly's Holiday Gift Guide 2025 for Illustrated & Art Books! Find the full guide here:

Many exciting features by YUP authors in Publisher Weekly's preview for Spring 2026... among them, Isabel Neal's stunning debut poetry collection, Thrown Voice, and Kevin Salatino's comprehensive Willem de Kooning Drawing.

The newest issue of the Journal of Modern History features a review on Katlyn Marie Carter's Democracy in Darkness, noting it as "[A] fine achievement."

Weber's Anni Albers: A Life has been featured by Publishers Weekly for notable forthcoming art and architecture books! Don't miss its release next spring!

"Tweed has made an impassioned case for healing and done much to reveal America’s beautifully colorful and horrendously exploitative past."—Ben Woollard, The Revealer, in a thoughtful new review of Religion in the Lands that Became America

The Christian Science Monitor names Leo Damrosch's Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson in its list of “The Top 25 Books of 2025.”

@sfchronicle highlights stunning art and design books of 2025, including Ruth Asawa: Retrospective and Superfine: Tailoring Black Style #ruthasawa @MuseumModernArt @SFMOMA #superfine @metmuseum 

Lovely piece about Ruth Asawa--her life and her artwork--in @newrepublic #ruthasawa #exhibition #artbook

Excellent interview of our author Katie Anania (whose book Out of Paper was published in October 2024) by Alex Wolfe in Bomb! #arthistory #interview

Excited to have two books on the @hyperallergic best art books of 2025 list! Hew Locke: Passages and Women Artists in Denmark: 1880-1910. 🎉

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Jim, writes on transnational American studies for the last twenty years in American Studies in Scandinavia, Volume 57:2. 

“[Zipperstein's new biography is] an insightful, full-throttled portrait of a man who alienated as many readers and critics as he enthralled.” –The Jewish News of Northern California, on 'Philip Roth'.

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Don't miss The Complete Review's appreciative and detailed take on Vila-Matas' 'Montevideo', now available on their website! 

Don't miss it! TIME's latest article on Sino-Japanese relations features Yorke's book, 'Empathy in Politics and Leadership'! Read on below.

@Patheos names Christianity as a Way of Life as one of 2025's best: "An analytical fusion of ethical and ontological philosophy...offers Christians a way to be in the world, both individually and communally." 

@ArtNews reviews @NationalGallery's Photography and the Black Arts Movement exhibition—including Yale Press's catalogue on the topic!

We Computers has made it to the final round in Electric Lit's Best Book Covers of 2025 contest. Head over to https://electricliterature.com/the-best-book-covers-of-2025-the-final-round/ to cast your vote 🗳️.

“[Zipperstein's new biography] delivers plenty of scoops and gossip. Its focus, though, is how [Philip] Roth’s life fed his art.” –The New York Sun

Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's review of 'Ambigrammia' by Douglas Hofstadter!

“['We Computers' is a] dizzying postmodernist confection translated with tireless ingenuity by Shelley Fairweather-Vega... a thronged, esoteric, besottedly allusive novel." —Sam Sacks, the Wall Street Journal

"Tweed’s 'Religion in the Lands that Became America' is a culmination of decades of research and thought on how to write America’s religious history."—Joey Cochran, Patheos's "Best Books of 2025".

@CTmagazine names Art Is... by Makoto Fujimura as winner of their book awards in culture & arts! "Part memoir, part artist statement, threaded with theology as creative practice."

"['Bonds of Freedom' is] an eye-opening look at the fates of captives freed by maritime patrols after the U.S. and U.K. abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. [A] savvy juxtaposition of individual lives and larger historical trend," writes Publishers Weekly.

Don't miss The Poetry Foundation's review of Piñeda's 'Stolen Flower'!

@NPR Books We Love 2025 features We Computers by author Hamid Ismailov—"an exuberant homage to all forms of translation and reinvention."

“A rich and nuanced contribution to a complex and often fraught topic," writes Woman's Art Journal on Iris Moon's 'Monstrous Beauty'.

Don't miss Literary Hub's excerpt of Lafon's stunning 'When I Listen to This Song', now available online!

@Artnet's "8 Standout Art Books This Season" features Knife Woman: "Charts Bourgeois's performances, fierce independence, and visceral work."

Ismailov's 'We Computers' is “an exuberant homage to all forms of translation and reinvention,” writes NPR for its "Books We Love" feature.

"A compelling, vividly-drawn account of a literary giant... Zipperstein's portrayal of [Philip Roth] is fastidious, respectful but not obsequious, and occasionally sharp about Roth's shortcomings and failures."—Megan Peck Shub, Haaretz

Don't miss Artnet’s round-up of seven “must-read books” on surrealism, which includes Yale author Polizzotti's 'Why Surrealism Matters'!

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The Economist includes Kay's 'The Corporation' in its "Best Books of 2025" list, noting the book "offers a lively, lucid discussion of what companies are, and what they are for". Read more below!

"[Levine's 'Architecture for Reading in Public'] is, like its subject, inviting to the public, conceptually ambitious, and beautiful." —Wall Street Journal

"[A] perceptive biography of the German-Jewish writer, focused on his ideas... A solid introduction to a 20th-century thinker whose influence has only increased over time." —Kirkus Reviews, on Gordon's 'Walter Benjamin'.

Don't miss The Nation's laudatory review of Jensen's "engagingly written, worthy" book, 'The Master of Contradictions'!

"A cogent case to reject wishful-thinking rightist presentism when studying the classics," writes Kirkus in its review of Dozier's "White Pedestal".

Snag a little piece of this year's Met Gala, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style features 241 stunning color images from the exhibition.  30% off with code GIFT30: https://shorturl.at/aIHzh

Washington Post Book World has tapped Damrosch's "Storyteller" as one of its 50 Notable Books of 2025. Read more below!