Featured book: Her Space, Her Time
October 30, 2023
The inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.
Valuing community for Open Access Week
October 23, 2023
Nick Lindsay, director of journals and open access, outlines the latest open access initiatives at the Press.
Book deals: October 2023 edition
October 17, 2023
A roundup of some of our recent book deals, slated for publication in 2025 and beyond.
A conversation with Kat Mustatea, author of Voidopolis
October 12, 2023
Mustatea discusses her book Voidopolis—a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City.
Featured book: Defending Animals
October 10, 2023
Defending Animals offers an in-depth look at the urgent struggle to protect animals from harm, cruelty, injustice, extinction, and their greatest threat—us.
Andrew Kinney joins the MIT Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor in Physical Sciences, Math, and Engineering
October 3, 2023
Kinney joins us from Harvard University Press and will further MIT Press‘s legacy of publishing high-impact scholarship in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and more.
Our future banned books
October 2, 2023
Which MIT Press publications might fall victim to the recent uptick in book bans?
October books: Her Space, Her Time; Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground; We, the Data; and more
September 29, 2023
Explore some of our most anticipated new releases for October.
National Science Foundation research award will expand the shift+OPEN initiative
September 26, 2023
The MIT Press will use the funds to flip two paywalled journals to open access and compare the feasibility of diamond open access models for STEM and humanities and social sciences (HSS) journals.
Independent publishers explore a range of genres
September 21, 2023
Indie publishers bring fascinating works to market and enrich the book publishing world in many ways.