Sarah Ruden, a poet and classicist who published a major new translation of The Aeneid with Yale University Press last year, has prohibited the press from bidding on her future work, and called on other Yale authors to reconsider their ties to the publisher after its hotly debated decision to remove the illlustrations from The Cartoons That Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen. Ms. Ruden made her feelings known in a letter to The New Criterion, which last month criticized Yale’s decision to remove the images, including cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, because of fears that they would trigger violence. “Yale Press, after breaking a crucial relationship of trust with an author’s mind and work, should be called a lickspittle of fanatics and forfeit any respect or consideration from other authors,” Ms. Ruden wrote in her letter.
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2 Responses to After Controversy, Yale U. Press Author Vows Not to Publish There Again
mart7624 - September 16, 2009 at 8:32 am
Yale is being intimidated by islamo-fascists. This is nothing new and certainly is not anything that won’t go away. The islamic war against western freedoms and civilization has been energetically pursued for centuries.
pittlaw - September 16, 2009 at 12:42 pm
While it may be true that “Yale is being intimidated by islamo-fascists. This is nothing new and certainly is not anything that won’t go away. The islamic war against western freedoms and civilization has been energetically pursued for centuries.,” Sarah Ruden can afford to mouth brave words because she is not going to be subjected to threats of bodily harm as was, say, Salman Rushdie. After Sarah lives in hiding for a few years, then maybe she will have earned the right to criticize Yale Press.