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
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
Chris Hedges: "Requiem for Gaza"(Post)Wed 10/14 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Chris Hedges presents on his profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, a collaboration with cartoonist Joe Sacco presenting the testi
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 essential accou
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
Cass Sunstein: "On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom" -- A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Wed 10/1 @ 6:00PMOnline webinar Please note this event is now Zoom only. Click here for more information and to register: https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/14322548 Join the Princeton Publi
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
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 Fund for Irish Studies presents Irish Biochemist and Immunologist Luke O’Neill(Post)Fri 9/18 @ 4:30PM @ 7:00PMJames Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street Renowned Irish biochemist and immunologist at Trinity College Dublin, Luke O’Neill will offer a talk about his work to kick o
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
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
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
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
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
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 Ame
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 Wholly
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