PUP acquires Robert D. Richardson’s Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives November 11, 2020 Executive Editor Anne Savarese has acquired World English rights, including Audio, to Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by the late biographer Robert D. Richardson. Read More
PUP acquires Ruha Benjamin’s Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want November 09, 2020 Executive Editor Megan Levinson has acquired World English rights, including audio, to Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by author, scholar, and activist Ruha Benjamin Read More
PUP acquires Vishaan Chakrabarti’s The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing Our Future for Pluralism and Planet October 16, 2020 Michelle Komie, publisher for art, architecture, and urban history, has acquired World rights to Vishaan Chakrabarti’s The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing Our Future for Pluralism and Planet, a manifesto for architectural design as an agent for positive change in the face of the most urgent global issues of our time, from ecological sustainability to social justice. Read More
Announcing the Princeton University Press Ideas Podcast October 15, 2020 We are thrilled to announce the launch of Princeton University Press’s Ideas Podcast, co-sponsored by the New Books Network and Literary Hub. Read More
In solidarity with the Association of University Presses against the Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping October 08, 2020 We stand in solidarity with the Association of University Presses in their condemnation of the Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping. Core to our values, our mission, and our resilience is a steadfast commitment to equity, inclusion, intellectual freedom, and continued growth. Read More
PUP acquires Ellen Wu’s Overrepresented: The Surprising Story of Asian Americans and Racial Justice October 07, 2020 Senior Editor Bridget Flannery-McCoy has acquired World rights, including audio, to Ellen Wu’s Overrepresented: The Surprising Story of Asian Americans and Racial Justice, a deep dive into the history of how “minority” rights have both strengthened and fractured ties between Asian Americans and other people of color—and divided the Asian American community itself. Read More
Author Forrest Stuart is awarded a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship October 06, 2020 Princeton University Press author Forrest Stuart has been honored with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for his work “challenging long-held assumptions about the forces that shape urban poverty and violence and bringing to light the lived reality of those who experience it.” Read More
Roger Penrose is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics October 06, 2020 Roger Penrose has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking study of black holes. Read More
The World According to Physics shortlisted for the Royal Society Book Prize September 23, 2020 We’re thrilled to learn that Jim Al-Khalili’s The World According to Physics has been shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Book Prize. Read More
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year September 23, 2020 Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton has been shortlisted for the prestigious Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. Read More
Call for papers: global publishing early career conference September 22, 2020 We are delighted to join Princeton University’s Fung Global Fellows Program and the International Comparative Literature Association as a co-organizer of Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility. Read More
Digital Book World Awards September 18, 2020 We are honored to be finalists in several categories for the 2020 Digital Book World Awards, including Audio Publisher of the Year. Read More
A new editorial partnership with Moon & Company September 01, 2020 We are delighted to announce the start of a new editing partnership Moon & Company. Over two years starting this autumn, Moon & Company will edit a select number of trade books, across a diversity of subject disciplines. Read More
PUP acquires Now Comes Good Sailing August 27, 2020 Executive Editor Anne Savarese has acquired World rights to Now Comes Good Sailing: On Henry David Thoreau and the Meaning of Life, an anthology of reflections on the timely and timeless, relevant, and resonant nature of Henry David Thoreau’s life and work. Read More
PUP acquires Christopher Paul Harris’s To Build a Black Future August 24, 2020 Senior Editor Bridget Flannery-McCoy has acquired World English rights, including audio and ebook, for To Build a Black Future: Blackness and Social Movement in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter by activist and author Christopher Paul Harris. Read More