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Browse our 2018 Politics Catalog
Our new Politics catalog includes an examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migration, a look at the...
View ArticleTrump’s Assertiveness vs. Rouhani’s Resistance
by Amin Saikal President Donald Trump has acted to diminish the Iranian Islamic regime over its nuclear program, missile industry and regional influence. He has given Tehran an ultimatum either to...
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Chaim Saiman on Halakhah
Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. In his panoramic book Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, Chaim Saiman traces...
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Keith Whittington: The Dream of a Nonpartisan Supreme Court
Since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, long the pivotal swing justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, we have been hearing a lot once again about the desire for a replacement justice and for a...
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Marcia Bjornerud on Timefulness
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The...
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Jack Wertheimer on The New American Judaism
American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. In The New American Judaism, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of...
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Kip Viscusi: Pricing Lives for Policies in 2018
After major catastrophes, there are often tallies of economic damages. The loss of life is often relegated to being the object of thoughts and prayers, but such losses have substantial economic value...
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José R. Castelló on Canids of the World
This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American...
View Article#ReadUP at the Brooklyn Book Festival
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City. Every year, national and international literary stars, publishers, booksellers, and many others gather to celebrate books...
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David Bainbridge on Stripped Bare
For more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy—the study of anatomical variation among different animal species—has been used to make arguments in natural philosophy, reinforce religious dogma,...
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All woman: the utopian feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
by Michael Robertson This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known today for ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892), a...
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PUP supports the Bookselling Without Borders 2019 Kickstarter
Princeton University Press is proud to partner with independent and academic presses on Bookselling without Borders, a fellowship designed to connect American readers to books from around the world....
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Simon Levis Sullam on The Italian Executioners
Most historians have long described Italians as relatively protective of their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust. But Simon Levis Sullam’s gripping new history The Italian Executioners shows how...
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Poet Austin Smith on Flyover Country
Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of...
View ArticleRemembering Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, pioneer in population genetics
Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, a pioneer in using genetic information to help trace human evolution, history and patterns of migration, passed away on August 31 at the age of 96. Hailed as a breakthrough in the...
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Martin Rees on On The Future
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects for the future—good and bad—are possible. Yet...
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Dora Malech on her new collection, Stet
In Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body’s bounds, and to...
View ArticleOn Peers (and peer review) in UP Publishing
Next month, the university press community will we set aside a week to celebrate peer review. The constructivism and altruism of peer review binds university presses, and undergirds our membership in...
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PUP at New Scientist Live in London
New Scientist Live is an annual festival in London which attracts over 30,000 visitors across four days. Each year a huge hall in the ExCel Centre in London is transformed into a hub for all things...
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Stephen Blackmore on How Plants Work
All the plants around us today are descended from simple algae that emerged more than 500 million years ago. While new plant species are still being discovered, it is thought that there are around...
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