Video PUP Speaks: Tamar Mitts on using public policy to confront online extremism April 04, 2025 Tamar Mitts鈥� research addresses emerging challenges at the intersection of technology and security. Read More
Essay Raising the dead April 04, 2025 My fascination, indeed, my love of, death began in my childhood when my mum took me to the British Museum to see the mummies. Read More
Essay Unlocking the Middle East riddle April 03, 2025 The Middle East is a tinderbox. The convergence of military, economic, social and geopolitical crises makes this moment, one of the most dangerous periods in the modern history of the region, an inflection point. Read More
Reading List New in Poetry April 01, 2025 鈥淧oets,鈥� a term taken from the ancient Greek, 鈥渢o make鈥濃�� have contributed significantly to linguistic, artistic, and even practical aspects of language. Poetry is unique among literary forms, it enhances empathy, self-expression, and is in many ways the perfect medium for complicated thought. Read More
Interview Daniel Abel and Sophie Maycock on Shark: The Illustrated Biography March 20, 2025 Written by two experienced shark educators, scientists, and conservationists, "Shark: The Illustrated Biography" blends engaging profiles of selected species with captivating illustrations to offer an unparalleled exploration of the life and times of the shark. Read More
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
Podcast Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men March 11, 2025 In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. 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
Podcast After 1177 B.C. March 05, 2025 In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed鈥攚hy some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Read More
Podcast The Age of Choice March 03, 2025 Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom. 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
Reading List Books to read during Women鈥檚 History Month March 01, 2025 Explore books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, or who have complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful. Read More
Podcast We Have Never Been Woke February 22, 2025 Society has never been more egalitarian鈥攊n theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, each tied to the rise of a new elite鈥攖he symbolic capitalists. Read More
