Wednesday 1/29 at 7:30pm Berlind Theatre, McCarter Neko Case will be joined in conversation with A.M. Homes to discuss her memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensabl ...
Peter Brooks in conversation with Anne Cheng: "Henry James Comes Home" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)Tues 11/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brook ...
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 es ...
Durba Mitra & Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conversation, facilitated by Lorgia García Peña: "The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism"(Post)Thurs 3/26 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Durba Mitra's new book explores how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imag ...
Tania Lombrozo in conversation with Elizabeth Margulis: "Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand"(Post)Wed 10/7 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Tania Lombrozo discusses her new book with Elizabeth Margulis. Why We Ask Why is an insightful look at the science of explanation, using psyc ...
Jarvis McInnis in conversation with Autumn Womack: “Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South"(Post)Mon 10/20 @ 5:00PMA17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz, Princeton University Join Jarvis McInnis, in conversation with Autumn Womack, assistant professor of African American Studies and English at Prin ...
Cynthia McVay: "Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place"(Post)Sun 6/28 @ 1:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In Under the Crucian Sun, environmentalist and creative Cynthia McVay sets foot on the island of St. Croix in 2018 for the ...
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 Egy ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 test ...
“On the Palestinian Diaspora and the Dream of Return”: A conversation between Professor Max Weiss and Hannah Lillith Assadi on her novel "Paradiso 17"(Post)Tues 3/31 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a conversation between Professor Max Weiss and Hannah Lillith Assadi on her novel Paradiso 17, an intimate, sweeping tale of one man& ...
The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Hala Alyan and Student Readers(Post)Tues 2/10 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Award-winning novelist, poet and memoirist Hala Alyan, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, reads from he ...
The Lewis Center for the Arts presents Tareq Baconi in conversation with Isabella Hammad: "Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir"(Post)Wed 2/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Tareq Baconi discusses his new book with Isabella Hammad. Fire in Every Direction is a memoir of political and queer awakening, of impossible love ...
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture 2025(Post)Thursday 4/3 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library, Community Room Also streaming live on Youtube RSVP to attend in person or online Princeton Theological Seminary presents The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ...
Jennifer Hayden in conversation with Summer Pierre: "Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner: Confessions of a Cartoonist Cook"(Post)Wed 11/19 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Jennifer Hayden has never liked to cook. She’s not particularly good at it, either. But, like so many of us, she does it anyway. Why is th ...
Roy Scranton in conversation with Andrew Cole: "Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress"(Post)Thurs 9/18 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Roy Scranton discusses his new book Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress with Andrew Cole Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms ...
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 ...
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 In ...
Radha Lin Chaddah in Conversation with Amy Jo Burns: A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)Sun 2/8 @ 11:00AMThe Princeton Public Library The author presents and discusses her novel And the Ancestors Sing. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastri ...
