A series of interview with authors of new books from Princeton University Press
Volatility. Instability. Insecurity. Precarity. There’s a burgeoning lexicon seeking to capture the
Tore C. Olsson‘s Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (P
In 2017 half of the world’s wealth belongs to the top 1% of the population. In his new book, The Gre
As the basis for a major world religion, the Qur’an is one of the most influential books of all time
How does a book come into being? In Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a No
Michael Allan‘s In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton Uni
There are as many New Deals as there are books on the subject. Yet only recently have historians beg
When the Sun comes back And the first quail calls Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd. For the old man is a-wa
The book discussed here is entitled The Calculus of Happiness: How a Mathematical Approach to Life A
The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceiv
Readers will want to grab a cocktail and charcuterie board when they sit down to read Richard E. Oce
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School, began
For this episode, New Books in Jewish Studies interviews Lewis Glinert, Professor of Hebrew Studies
This week’s podcast is a fraud or at least about a fraud. Edward J. Balleisen has written Fraud: An
A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries,
Robert Jervis is the author of How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics (Prince
If ever there were a course that needs a book like Raffi Grinberg’s The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All
Within the context of the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, elite institutions of higher educa
The wish to understand mental suffering is universal and requires an appreciation for its history. S
In popular discourse today, few concepts are more sensationalized and maliciously caricatured than t
