Monday 6/16 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 3 decades, discusses his recently released book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an Ame ...
Beth Lew-Williams in conversation with Anne Cheng: "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law"(Post)Tues 9/16 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday li ...
Susan Cheever in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever"(Post)Wed 3/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street When All the Men Wore Hats is a sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the lege ...
Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Yelena Baraz - A New Translation of The Odyssey(Post)Thursday 4/17 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his new translation of The Od ...
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation bet ...
Noel Rubinton: "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thursday 5/15 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Noel Rubinton discusses his recently published book Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, an annotated guide to the wor ...
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium) Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, ...
A Conversation on Amy Kaplan's "Our American Israel"-- Featuring Joan Scott & Chris Hedges(Post)Wednesday 4/9 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street On the occasion of the paperback release of Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel, Chris Hedges and Joan Scott discuss Kaplan’s es ...
Brian Soucek in conversation with Joan Scott: "The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education"(Post)Thurs 1/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Law professor Brian Soucek discusses his new book with Joan Scott. The Opinionated University demonstrates why institutional neutrality is nothi ...
Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Megan McDowell: "The Queen of Swords: A journey through the Princeton Archives of Elena Garro"(Post)Wed 11/12 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street The Queen of Swords Tour: Jazmina Barrera and Megan McDowell on Elena GarroAuthor Jazmina Barrera, on tour from Mexico City, and translator Megan ...
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Didi Jackson and Major Jackson(Post)Tues 2/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing presents the annual Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportuni ...
Anand Pandian in conversation with Elizabeth Anne Davis: "Something Between Us"(Post)Tuesday 9/9 @ 6:00 PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Am ...
What’s So Great About “The Great Gatsby”?(Post)Monday 4/28 @ 4:30PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Free registration required. Register here. Featuring The Great Gatsby scholars Maureen Corrigan, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Kirk Curnutt, a ...
Susan Stewart in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "Bramble"(Post)Tues 4/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold. Bramble is ...
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series Presents: Marilyn Hacker & Ayana Mathis(Post)Tuesday 3/18 at 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Bestselling authors Marilyn Hacker and Ayana Mathis read from their recent work as a part of the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W&r ...
Peniel Joseph In Conversation with Laurence Ralph: "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution" – A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)9/11 @ 6:00 PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black ...
Library Live at Labyrinth Presents A Poetry Reading with Idra Novey & Guests(Post)Tuesday 4/1 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Idra Novey, author of several novels, faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth in her new poetry collection Soon and Wholl ...
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture 2025(Post)Thursday 4/3 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library, Community Room Also streaming live on Youtube RSVP to attend in person or online Princeton Theological Seminary presents The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ...
Allison Carruth in conversation with Eliza Griswold Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech(Post)Tuesday 3/4 at 6:00pm Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, Novel Ecologies pinpoints a new environmental p ...
"Articulate” Book Talk with Rachel Kolb(Post)Fri 11/7 @ 4:30PM219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University Join us for a book talk and signing by deaf writer and educator Rachel Kolb, who grew up between signing and speaking worlds as part of th ...