Thursday 3/27 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street A profound and lyrical reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it, told through th ...
Robert G. Parkinson: "Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence"(Post)Tues 6/30 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Rev ...
Cynthia A. Kierner: "The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America"(Post)Thurs 6/4 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University This event is presented by The Department of History’s Revolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series. The Sp ...
Elizabeth Margulis in conversation with Tania Lombrozo: "Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams"(Post)5/19/26 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis discusses her new book with Tania Lombrozo. Transported explores the phe ...
Morten Høi Jensen in conversation with Florian Fuchs: "The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of 'The Magic Mountain'" (Post)Thurs 10/23 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a discussion on the arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain while a defeated Germany descended into politi ...
Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Christy Wampole: "Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum"(Post)Thursday 4/24 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street In an era of rapid change, the role of museums and art has never been more vital in connecting the past to the present. Laurence des Ca ...
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 Third Reich of Dreams”: A roundtable on Charlotte Beradt’s study of the dreaming of political fables in Nazi Germany(Post)Weds 4/22 @ 4:30 PMBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University A roundtable on The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt's 1966 study of the dreaming of political fables in ...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta in conversation with Kate Meng Brassel: "Classicism and Other Phobias" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)Wednesday 9/10 @ 6:00 PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Dan-el Padilla Peralta is joined by Kate Meng Brassel to discuss his new book Classicism and Other Phobias. The book, based on W.E.B. Du B ...
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in conversation with Brian Herrera: "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" --A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)9/15 @ 7:00 PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is joined by Brian Herrera to discuss his recently released biography of the creator of Hamilton and In the Heig ...
Authors Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant: A Library & Labyrinth Event -- 3PM SUN @ PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY(Post)Sunday 2/2 at 3:00pm Princeton Public Library The Princeton University evolutionary ecology husband and wife team, renowned for the work with Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos, each di ...
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 ...
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 ...
D. Vance Smith in conversation with Simon Gikandi: "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" – A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thurs 2/5 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Registration requested here D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
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, ...
Christopher Eisgruber: "Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 10/20 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber discusses his book Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right. Free Regis ...
Cynthia McVay in conversation with Mimi Schwartz: "A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place"(Post)Sunday 6/22 @ 2:00PM Labyrinth Books Join us as Cyntha McVay presents her book A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place. A lifelong creative and environmentalist, McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decad ...
Dylan Gottlieb in conversation with Kevin Kruse: "Yuppies" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Thurs 5/14 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Dylan Gottlieb is joined in conversation with Kevin Kruse to discuss Dylan’s new book. From Harvard University Press, Yuppies: The B ...
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 ...
Twenty years of Harry Frankfurt’s "On Bullshit"(Post)Thurs 10/30 @ 5:00PMPrinceton University Press, 41 William Street With Jaime Fernández Fisac, Elizabeth Harman, and Gideon Rosen, moderated by Joe Schmid The world has changed dramatical ...