Summer Reads 2026: Princeton professors share what's on their lists .

This summer’s mix includes botany, sculpture, music, some sci-fi and fantasy deep cuts, novels set in France, Ireland, Sweden, the Swiss Alps and across Asia, a memoir from Cameroon, a book of letters from ancient Egypt, a cat behavior book and more.

A conservator's work on de Kooning’s ‘Black Friday’ for Princeton reveals new insights and a surprise .

Princeton University Art Museum's chief conservator, Bart Devolder, spent six months analyzing and preparing “Black Friday” for the current de Kooning exhibition. The work came with surprises — including "the likelihood of an abstract composition with bright colors underneath ‘Black Friday.’”