Essay Live longer by living better, says Seneca December 05, 2022 Because we can't truly conceive of an endpoint to life, we give to our time far less value than we should, squandering it on useless pursuits or frivolities. Read More
Interview Elena Llaudet and Kosuke Imai on Data Analysis for Social Science November 28, 2022 Data Analysis for Social Science teaches step-by-step how to analyze data with the free and popular statistical program R and covers the fundamentals of survey research, predictive models, and causal inference. Read More
Interview Office hours with Forrest Stuart November 26, 2022 Forrest Stuart, author of Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy, shares some significant moments thus far in his career, offers valuable insight on some of his favorite books—and may surprise you with his bedtime reading habits. Read More
Essay A time for utopias November 21, 2022 “Generation Dread,” “The World as We Knew It,” or “Global Burning.” This is just a small sample of book titles from this year that deal with global warming and its environmental, socio-economic, political, and cultural consequences. Read More
Podcast Underwater Eye November 17, 2022 In The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed documentary and narrative filmmakers to take human vision into the depths, creating new imagery of the seas and the underwater realm, and expanding the scope of popular imagination. Read More
Essay In the name of connection: Notes on the 2022 meeting of the PUP European Advisory Board November 17, 2022 16 September 2022. The date was set. We would be meeting with the Princeton University Press European Advisory Board—in person!—after a two-year hiatus. And we would be gathering in our new premises in leafy north Oxford, to which we had moved in late 2021. Read More
Podcast The World the Plague Made November 15, 2022 In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. Read More
Interview Democracy’s dilemmas: Ewa Atanassow in conversation with Schuyler Curriden November 15, 2022 How can today’s liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Read More
Interview Ideas and inspiration from Princeton University Press fellows November 14, 2022 In July 2022, Princeton University Press welcomed its second-year Publishing Fellows. The Publishing Fellowship was created in 2021 to address a lack of diverse representation across the publishing industry, as part of a Press-wide Equity and Inclusion strategic initiative launched in 2018. Read More
Video Celebrating 100 audiobooks November 14, 2022 In 2018, the Princeton University Press team launched the first university press audiobook program, Princeton Audio. Four years and almost a thousand hours of published audiobooks later, we are thrilled to be publishing our hundredth audiobook. Read More
Interview Richard S. Ellis on When Galaxies Were Born November 10, 2022 Astronomers are like time travelers, scanning the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a mere fraction of its present age. Read More
Essay Prague’s infinite shades of gray November 10, 2022 Interwar Prague was an avant-garde hotbed, but the first exhibition of Czech art to take place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was not devoted to Czech modernism. Read More
Podcast Complicit November 08, 2022 It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Chris Bail on polarization and the pandemic November 07, 2022 PUP Speaks presents Chris Bail, author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing, who demonstrates how the cracks that showed in our societies during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to split us in two. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Viral Justice November 04, 2022 Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Read More