Princeton University Press

On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages

Lorna Gibb Considers How Language Shapes Identities, Worldviews and Societies Across the Globe

 
By Lorna Gibb  April 23, 2025
Cultural History

“The Question Project.” On John Dunton and the World’s First Advice Column

By Mary Beth Norton  April 23, 2025
American West

What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

By Martha A. Sandweiss  April 16, 2025
Ancient History

What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

By Robert Garland  April 3, 2025
Fashion History

From Princely Regalia to Women’s Underwear: The Evolution of the Color Pink

By Michel Pastoureau  February 24, 2025
Artificial Intelligence

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

By Webb Keane  February 7, 2025
Mathematics

How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

By Raúl Rojas  January 15, 2025
Home Libraries

A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne

By Andrew Hui  December 5, 2024
The Craft of Writing

Leonard Cassuto on Taking Care of Your Reader

By Leonard Cassuto  November 1, 2024
Language

Bell-ends, Pillocks, Numpties, and Sh*tgibbons: Why the Brits Swear Better

By Ben Yagoda  September 30, 2024
Cundill History Prize

No War Is Too Small: How Localized Conflicts Sparked Imperial Violence

By Lauren Benton  September 9, 2024
literary criticism

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay  September 4, 2024
Afrofuturism

To Dream of Beauty: On the Possibility of Afrofuturism as a Solution to Climate Catastrophe

By Christopher J. Schell  August 15, 2024
Insects

Solving the Mystery of the Dancing Honey Bees

By Thomas D. Seeley  May 17, 2024
Psychology

Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy  May 16, 2024
Gender

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

By Jennifer Finney Boylan  May 15, 2024
Medicine

Magic and Medicinal: On the Pharmacological Potential of Mushrooms

By Nicholas P. Money  March 20, 2024
Voting

Why Voting in The Oscars (and in Politics) Is Broken, and How to Fix Both

By Ismar Volić  March 4, 2024
Natural History

How an Icelandic Bird Led to the Discovery of Human-Caused Extinction

By Gísli Pálsson  February 7, 2024
Myths and Legends

Why We Anthropomorphize Animals (and Always Have)

By Hana Videen  February 6, 2024
Entertainment

Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

By Paul J. Nahin  January 17, 2024
On Reading

In Praise of Reading: How Literature Enables Us to Inhabit New Worlds

By Arnold Weinstein  January 4, 2024
University Press Week

This Year’s University Press Week Showcases Work That Sparks Conversation

By Jane Bunker  November 13, 2023
Birds

The World’s Most Beautiful Bird Lives in Yellowstone National Park

By Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, Katharine E. Duffy and David Haines   October 12, 2023
Language

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
Artists

Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

By Joanna Moorhead  August 22, 2023
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