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New Literature Catalog!
We invite you to be among the first to check out our new literature catalog! http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/lit13.pdf Of particular interest is the fourth edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of...
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PUP News of the World
Welcome to the next edition of our brand new series, PUP News of the World! Every week we will be posting a round-up of all of our most exciting national AND international...
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!
Two hundred and thirty-eight candles for the late Jane Austen, who was born today in 1775. Happy birthday, dear Jane! Wondering how to celebrate the Pride and Prejudice writer’s special day? Luckily,...
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Untranslatable Tuesdays – Kitsch
To mark the publication of Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, we are delighted to share a series of playful graphics by our design team which illustrate some of the most...
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Interview with n+1 co-founder and PUP author Mark Greif
As Adam Kirsch writes in Tablet Magazine’s review of n+1 co-founder Mark Greif’s widely-reviewed new book, The Age of the Crisis of Man, “[t]he word “crisis” itself seems to capture something essential...
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PUP celebrates National Poetry Month
Princeton University Press will be kicking off National Poetry Month by featuring a new poetry-related title each week on the blog, starting with Colm Tóibín’s deeply personal introduction to the life...
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An interview with Jeff Nunokawa, author of “Note Book”
Each morning since 2007, Jeff Nunokawa, English professor at Princeton University, logs onto Facebook and writes something. But unlike most of us who take part in this simple exercise in connection,...
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Which of these 15 myths of digital-age English do you believe?
One Day in the Life of the English Language by Frank Cioffi, a new style guide that eschews memorization in favor of internalizing how sentences actually work, handily refutes these 15 myths of...
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150 years ago today, Alice in Wonderland was published
July 4, 2015 may be about Independence Day in the United States, but in Oxford, it’s about one of the great heroes of fiction, a young girl who followed a white rabbit, met a hookah-smoking caterpillar...
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An interview with poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain on “The Ruined Elegance”
© Dominique Nabokov, 2015, Paris Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist. In her new collection—an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and...
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ALICE WAS BEGINNING TO get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or...
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Children’s Literature for Grownups #ReadUp
Have you ever found yourself returning to a book considered “children’s literature?” There’s just something about our favorite children’s books that can draw us in. What’s with the magnetism?...
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New Literature Catalog
We invite you to scroll through our Literature 2016 catalog: Living on Paper is necessary reading for any fans of Iris Murdoch. It is the first major collection of Murdoch’s personal letters from...
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Emma’s Muslim Counterpart
A Lost Persian Diary from Jane Austen’s England by Nile Green December 2015 marks the two hundred year anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma. As symbolized in Lord Byron’s introduction...
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George Marsden on “Mere Christianity” and the conversion of C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis’s eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, has a rather dramatic origin story. Recently George Marsden took some time to talk about C.S. Lewis’s Mere...
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Iris Murdoch: A writer ahead of her time
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, co-edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, is a close examination of Murdoch’s life and writing, completely composed of her own personal correspondence....
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Tom Jones on Alexander Pope’s “original vision of humankind”
Highly regarded as one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, Alexander Pope’s poem, “An Essay on Man” was a way to “vindicate the ways of God to man” in terms of the...
View ArticleReiner Stach explores neglected period of Kafka’s life in crowning volume
The culmination of two decades of work, Reiner Stach’s three-part, masterful biography of Franz Kafka, one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and mysterious writers, is now complete. Kafka: The...
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Thomas Laqueur awarded 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
Warmest congratulations to Thomas W. Laqueur, acclaimed cultural historian and author of The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, for winning the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical...
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Mark Williams: A look at Irish gods and their legacy
Ageless fairies inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s immortal elves; W. B. Yeats invoked Irish divinities to reimagine the national condition. Why have Ireland’s mythical beings loomed so large in the world’s...
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