Interview Ideas and inspiration from 91桃色 2024 fellows March 17, 2025 Every year, PUP鈥檚 Publishing Fellowship program supports two fellows annually in full-time, salaried positions where they are supervised and mentored by hosts in their respective departments and are offered a variety of meaningful opportunities to engage with colleagues across the Press. Read More
Essay Pi Day with John Horton Conway, revisited March 12, 2025 Over several years, while writing Genius at Play, my biography of the always wondrous yet often pernickety one-of-a-kind mathematician John Horton Conway, I was plied by my subject with a smorgasbord of tales. Read More
Essay Content moderation is a policy problem, not just a platform problem March 11, 2025 We have all witnessed the familiar cycle. Extremist or hateful content surfaces online and sparks public outrage鈥攑erhaps a stream of violent propaganda, a wave of conspiracy theories, or explicit calls for harm. Read More
Interview Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy on Memory Lane March 05, 2025 We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them. Read More
Interview Ian Stewart on The Celts: A Modern History March 03, 2025 A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France. Read More
Essay Celebrating Bird Photographer of the Year February 22, 2025 Photographers from "Bird Photographer of the Year: Collection 9" tell the stories behind their selected shots. Read More
Essay Paradoxical possibility: embracing anti-racism鈥檚 contradictions February 19, 2025 Anti-racism work is paradoxical. It requires the capacity to straddle contradictory yet interdependent realities that seem irreconcilable but must and can both be navigated. Read More
Essay Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, and public history February 19, 2025 The evening before Three King鈥檚 Day, on January 6th, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny released his sixth album DeB脥 TiRAR MaS FOTos (I Should Have Taken More Pictures). Instead of releasing highly produced videos, the artist's team worked with Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo, author of 鈥淧uerto Rico: A National History,鈥� to create historical slides that were launched alongside each of the seventeen tracks. Read More
Essay How we make quasi-humans and super-humans February 13, 2025 Are AI and robots pushing us over the edge toward some "post-human" utopia, or apocalyptic "singularity"? Things that define or challenge our intuitions about the boundaries of the human can be sources of trouble. Read More
Essay Emma Jung鈥檚 years of self-liberation February 11, 2025 Emma Jung鈥檚 creative life is recorded in numerous handwritten notebooks and art portfolios, all of which lay undisturbed after her death in 1955. Until her documents in the family archive were systematically studied, she had not been thought of as a real contributor to the movement of analytical psychology, or as a full partner in her husband鈥檚 ground-breaking work. Read More
Interview Reading voices February 11, 2025 Even when it is performed for oneself, reading unfolds on an inner stage populated by different voices. Read More
Interview Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice February 05, 2025 The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice, from shopping to voting to family planning. It explores how the simple act of selecting from a menu of options became equated with freedom in much of the modern world鈥攁nd with what consequences for all of us. Read More
Essay Once upon a time: Hollywood meets Bob Dylan at Newport January 29, 2025 鈥淎 Complete Unknown鈥� has attracted outsized media attention. As someone who has written a bit about Dylan here and there, I can attest that not a single day has gone by in the past month without me receiving a message: What did you think? Read More
Interview Jaap de Roode on Doctors by Nature January 24, 2025 The use of medicinal drugs is often viewed as a uniquely human exercise. In Doctors by Nature, however, Jaap de Roode shows that many non-human animals also practice medicine. Read More
Interview Ra煤l Rojas on The Language of Mathematics January 23, 2025 The history of language and mathematical notation is filled with chance and serendipity. I want readers to see mathematics as a living organism, a living subject, with a history. Mathematics is all about logical truth, and the discipline seems forged in steel. But in fact, mathematics evolved through different phases. Read More
