Tues 2/24 @ 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 Prin
Dave Zirin in conversation with Brian Jones: "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn"(Post)Wed 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a conversation with Dave Zirin on his biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive
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’21 Reading S
Matthew Halteman in conversation with Andrew Chignell(Post)Thursday 5/1 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Perhaps you’ve looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that very probab
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 discuss their re
Daniel Heller-Roazen in conversation with Michael Wood: Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration (Post)Tues 2/3 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Daniel Heller-Roazen discusses his new book Far Calls with Michael Wood. Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies is an inquiry into the theories
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
Anny Gaul in conversation with Hanna Garth: "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato"(Post)Wed 3/18 @ 12:00PM219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato, indigenous to the Americas, had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egyp
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
Edward Tenner: "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences," A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Wednesday 6/4 @ 7:00pm Princeton Public Library Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore the surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Titan
DATE CHANGE: Paul North in conversation with Wendy Brown: Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy(Post)Thurs 4/1 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE CHANGE TO APRIL 1, 2027. Paul North is joined in conversation with Wendy Brown. Princeton University Press’s new edition of
Tom Griffiths in conversation with Adam Elga: "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind"--A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 3/9 @ 7:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Tom Griffiths, head of Princeton’s AI Lab, discusses his new book The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mi
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
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
"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
Sanyu Mojola "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 2/2 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library Sociologist Sanyu Mojola, joined in conversation with Waverly Duck and Tukufu Zuberi, presents her new book Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Ine
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
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.
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 legen
Tending Good Soil: A Conversation with Jeff Chu and Krista Tippett(Post)Friday 4/25 @ 7:00pm Farminary, Princeton Theological Seminary In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farminary”—a twen
