PUP Life: Meetings, memos, and coffee in the conservatory July 25, 2024 As the senior editor for social science books here in the European office, my role is to seek out the most exciting and important new book ideas and work with authors to help them develop their work into proposals and eventually books. Read More
What’s Joe Biden’s role in politics now? July 24, 2024 In April 2020, when Joe Biden had effectively won his party’s nomination to challenge incumbent US President Donald Trump in the coming election and political commentators had begun to fret about both candidates’ ages, I consulted Plutarch of Chaeronea to get his advice about old men engaging in politics. Read More
Hillbilly Highway July 22, 2024 Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. Read More
Auden in nature and history July 22, 2024 If you look at the volumes published so far in the Auden Critical Editions series, you’ll see that, with the exception of the Juvenilia (a unique kind of text), they feature book-length works. Read More
In celebration of the simple act of listening July 18, 2024 World Listening Day is an opportunity for all of us to pause and hone our awareness of the world around us and practice the art of listening. Read More
Listen in: Slow Burn July 17, 2024 It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. Read More
The life of American Afterlives July 12, 2024 I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she contact Princeton University Press about her manuscript. Read More
Volatile waters, fluid histories July 12, 2024 It can be depressing these days to read about the state of the world’s water supplies. This is a global problem, but it is undoubtedly most acute in the so-called global south, where population is growing fastest and water infrastructures are least robust. As pressing as these challenges are today, they have a long history. Read More
Accounting for inequality July 10, 2024 Sitting in a Thai village with my collaborator, Anna Paulson, we began to wonder how to capture all the nuances of the reality of life of households and small entrepreneurs. Read More
Ovid’s 38 recommendations for getting over a breakup July 10, 2024 Ever gone through a breakup? You’re not alone. In the year 1 CE, the Roman poet Ovid published a poem titled "Remedies for Love", and it suggests that relationships haven’t changed much in two thousand years. Read More
Breaking the Mold July 05, 2024 The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic. Read More
Listen in: The Last Human Job July 05, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. Read More
Shark books to sink your teeth into July 01, 2024 We publish the world’s leading shark books, created by a team of international experts and covering in gorgeous detail the world’s full range of shark species, providing everything a shark-lover needs to identify and celebrate these magnificent creatures. Read More
How to Be Queer June 14, 2024 How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Read More
Liberalism may be the source of your soul June 14, 2024 The most obvious and important realities can sometimes be the hardest to think and talk about. Read More