Princeton University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/princeton-university-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Princeton University Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/princeton-university-press/ 32 32 When Language Is Lost, What Can Be Gained? https://www.publicbooks.org/when-language-is-lost-what-can-be-gained/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58766 Aphasia brings up existential questions that get at the heart of human connection: Who are we without language?

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]]> Public Picks 2024 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2024/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58448 What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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]]> You Could Use the Exercise https://www.publicbooks.org/you-could-use-the-exercise/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57208 In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.

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]]> Arabic ≠ Latin: Sacred Language in a Secular Age https://www.publicbooks.org/arabic-%e2%89%a0-latin-sacred-language-in-a-secular-age/ Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56624 Lienau’s exposition illustrates that the Orientalist position of Quranic Arabic’s essential untranslatability is rooted not in historical fact but racist fantasy.

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]]> White Suburbs and Drug Wars https://www.publicbooks.org/white-suburbs-and-drug-wars/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:00:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56710 To understand the racism of the drug war, in other words, we must look to the ways policymakers sought to protect white suburban youth.

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]]> “The Unique Magic That Happens When Two People Come Together”: Allison Pugh on Building a Society of Connection https://www.publicbooks.org/the-unique-magic-that-happens-when-two-people-come-together-allison-pugh-on-building-a-society-of-connection/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56739 “What we are doing by mechanizing encounters is bleeding out the unique and rather mysterious social outcome.”

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]]> On Our Nightstands: May 2023 https://www.publicbooks.org/on-our-nightstands-may-2023/ Wed, 31 May 2023 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52529 A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.

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]]> “We Want More Housing, but How?” Talking with Max Holleran https://www.publicbooks.org/we-want-more-housing-but-how-talking-with-max-holleran/ Tue, 30 May 2023 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52394 “There are a lot of basic things that America has still not accepted in terms of how to live a happy urban life.”

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]]> Cooking, Monasteries, Arithmetic: Lorraine Daston on the History of Rules https://www.publicbooks.org/cooking-monasteries-arithmetic-lorraine-daston-on-the-history-of-rules/ Fri, 19 May 2023 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52181 “There is a deadly earnestness with which children take up whatever rules have been established for a particular context.”

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]]> Public Thinker: Ruha Benjamin on Uprooting Oppression and Seeding Justice https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-ruha-benjamin-on-uprooting-oppression-and-seeding-justice/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51820 “Keep your cosmetic change, if you’re making no attempt to deal with the underlying practices that perpetuate harm.”

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