Thurs 11/19 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Thomas Trezise is joined in conversation with André Benhaïm. Beginning Again: A Spouse’s Story of Life after Trauma recounts the struggle to reb
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 political ch
Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery, and the Promise of America”(Post)Sun 4/26 @ 3:00PM Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, joined by Eddie Glaude, discusses her book "Jefferson on Race," examining hi
Shelley Frisch in conversation with Michael Wood: "Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind" – A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Wed 9/30 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Shelley Frisch is joined in conversation with Michael Wood about her translation of Thomas Meyer’s definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intelle
The Princeton Public Library's Book Brunch featuring Chad Harbach -- A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)10/25 @ 11:00AM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Bestselling author Chad Harbach is joined by Matthew Thomas to discuss his recently released novel The Brightness. Doors
Roy Wood Jr.: "The Man of Many Fathers" Book Tour(Post)Thurs 3/19 @ 7:30 PMMcCarter Theatre Center, Matthew Theatre. Purchase tickets here. From comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and producer, star of CNN's Have I Got News For You, and former D
2025 Prathia Hall Lecture: The Radical Roots of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its Lessons for Today with Danielle McGuire(Post)Monday 4/21@ 5:00PM Theron Room, Wright Library, Princeton Theological Seminary >>RSVP to attend in person or online The Montgomery Bus Boycott is often reduced to a simple story of Rosa Parks’ d
Princeton University Public Lectures presents Percival Everett(Post)Wed 3/25 @ 5:00PMMcCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University Percival Everett is one of the most innovative, provocative, and prolific writers of our time. A winner of the Pulitzer Pr
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
Hanna Garth in conversation with Bonnetta Adeeb & Ruha Benjamin: "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement"(Post)Wed 3/18 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite thei
Elaine Pagels in conversation with Eliza Griswold(Post)Tuesday 4/8 @ 6:00pm Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a po
"Find Waldo Local" in Princeton July 1-30(Post)Celebration Party July 1, 2026 at 4:00 - 6:00PM at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton FIND WALDO LOCAL at participating businesses in downtown Princeton July 1 through July 31 Where’s Wald
The Fund for Irish Studies presents Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride: "For and Against a United Ireland"(Post)Fri 3/20 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street Co-authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride debate the points in their recent book, For and Against a United Ireland, as the annual Robe
Summer Reading Soirée featuring Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie: Presented by Princeton Public Library(Post)Wed 7/8 @ 6:30PMMorven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street The authors discuss and sign copies of A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams at this annual gathering featuring refreshments, give
On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"(Post)Tues 4/21 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American chu
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
Priya Vulchi in conversation with Ruha Benjamin(Post)Monday 4/14 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Priya Vulchi is joined in conversation by Ruha Benjamin to discuss her latest book, Good Friends: Bonds that Change Us and the World. Friendship is g
Princeton University Public Lectures presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Policing the Crisis, Revisited"(Post)Thurs 11/5 5:00 pm – 6:30PM McCosh Hall, Room 50 Free and open to the public Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at
The Lewis Center for the Arts presesnts Sondheim’s Afterlives Symposium(Post)Thurs 11/5 1:00-6:00PMWallace TheaterOpen to the publicFree Tickets Required: Register here An artistic, scholarly, and personal celebration of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most
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 Odyssey. Widely kn