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 discuss their re
William Lewis: "Preserving the Pines: New Jersey and the Origins of Environmentalism"(Post)Sunday 6/1 @ 3:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In the early twentieth century, an interconnected web of men and women led by Dr. V.E. Vivian fought for and won a better future in Whitesbog Vil
Leif Weatherby, author of "Language Machines," in conversation with Mel Andrews about AI(Post)Thurs 10/8 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a conversation between Leif Weatherby, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University and author of the book
The Lewis Center for the Arts presents The C. K. Williams Reading Series: A Reading by Jamel Brinkley and Senior Thesis Students(Post)Tues 10/27 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Multi-award-winning writer Jamel Brinkley, winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and O. Henry Prize and finalist for th
The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Maya Marshall and Student Readers(Post)Tues 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street The C.K. Williams Reading Series, named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet C.K. Williams, who served on Pri
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 paradigm tha
Patricia Smith: "The Intentions of Thunder: New & Selected Poems" -- A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thurs 10/2 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for an evening celebrating the release of The Intentions of Thunder, a collection of new and selected poems from one of the most groundbr
Mary Fontana: "Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border"(Post)Wed 12/2 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Mary Fontana presents her new book. Strangers in the Province of Joy is the story of America writ small—a nation founded by immigrants and its sh
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 Spurgin f
Aleksandar Hemon: "Godspotting"(Post)Tues 12/1 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street A MacArthur recipient’s first collection of poetry embraces mortality and survival in the face of global conflict and domestic threat. Godspotting
Serena Zabin: "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"(Post)Thurs 5/7 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution. This event
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
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 liv
Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsio in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore(Post)Thursday 3/6 at 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.
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
Xita Rubert in conversation with Aleksandar Hemon: "The Key Biscayne Affair"(Post)Wed 11/11 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Winner of the Herralde Novel Prize, The Key Biscayne Affair is a darkly funny coming-of-age novel where Florida’s sun-drenched strangeness meets t
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 Revolution. This event
Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Brandon McKoy: "Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past"(Post)Thurs 4/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as Dorothy A. Brown discusses her new book with Brandon McKoy. Getting to Reparations is a bold manifesto arguing that there is a cle
CANCELLED--Shatema Threadcraft in Conversation with Reena Goldthree: "The Labors of Resurrection"(Post)Mon 2/23 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library Please note this event has been cancelled due to inclement weather. The author, joined in conversation by Reena Goldthree, presents her new book The Lab
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, and mod