Sarah Ruden, a poet and classicist who published a major new translation of The Aeneidwith 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 itshotly 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.
