A feature story on the University homepage highlights books from Princeton professors that have been selected for at least one 2024 year-end “best of” list. Books from humanities faculty include:
- “Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs” by David Bellos (French and Italian and Comparative Literature), co-authored with Alexandre Montagu, is included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2024 and The Spectator Books of the Year.
- “Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority” by Anne Cheng (English), is included in the Hyperallergic 30 Best Art Books of 2024 and the Washington Independent Review of Books 51 Favorite Books of 2024.
- “Great Expectations” by Vinson Cunningham (Journalism and Humanities Council), is included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024), NPR Books We Love 2024, The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2024, and Esquire’s Best Books of 2024 (So Far).
- “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church” by Eliza Griswold (Journalism and Humanities Council), is included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2024, The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024, The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024, NPR Books We Love 2024 and Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2024: Religion, among many others. Read a Q&A about the book on the Humanities Council’s Faculty Bookshelf.
- “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art” by Rhodri Lewis (English), is included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2024.
- “Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer” by Simon Morrison (Music, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Canadian Studies), is included in the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2024-Classical and Pop Music.
- “Joy in Service on Rue Tagore” by Paul Muldoon (Lewis Center for the Arts), is included in The New York Times Notable Books of 2024.
- “Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense” and “Butcher,” both by Joyce Carol Oates (Lewis Center for the Arts, emeritus), are included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2024 and the Vogue Best Books of 2024, respectively.
- “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays” by Nell Irvin Painter (History, emerita), is included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year.
Throughout the year, the Humanities Council Faculty Bookshelf highlights humanities scholarship. The Lewis Center for the Arts also recognizes new works of creative writing on its Featured Faculty Publications.