Fri 4/10 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street Biographer and editor Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n
Thomas Trezise in conversation with André Benhaïm: "Beginning Again: A Spouse’s Story of Life after Trauma"(Post)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
Princeton Public Lectures present Gabriel Zucman: “Wealth, Power, and Democracy”(Post)Tues 4/15 @ 5:00PMMcCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University The rise of extreme wealth has been a defining feature of the U.S. and global economy over the past 15 years. Addressing this challenge req
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
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 Princ
Judith Weisenfeld in conversation with Nicole Myers Turner(Post)4/29 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists list
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 & pastries. B
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 Brooks bring
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
Twenty years of Harry Frankfurt’s "On Bullshit"(Post)Thurs 10/30 @ 5:00PMPrinceton University Press, 41 William Street With Jaime Fernández Fisac, Elizabeth Harman, and Gideon Rosen, moderated by Joe Schmid The world has changed dramatically over
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
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
Sash Bischoff in conversation with Sheila Kohler -- 6PM THURS JAN. 30 @ LABYRINTH BOOKS(Post)Sweet Fury: A Novel Thursday 1/30 at 6:00pm Labyrinth Books Map When a beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of reven
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
Cortney Lamar Charleston in conversation with Patricia Smith: "It’s Important I Remember: Poems"(Post)Thurs 4/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Cortney Lamar Charleston is joined by Patricia Smith to discuss his new collection of poems from Northwestern University Press. This event was r
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
Owen Zidar in conversation with Alan Blinder: "The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Wed 9/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a discussion between Owen Zidar and Alan Blinder. The Everywhere Millionaire is Zidar’s groundbreaking new portrait, co-authored with E
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation betw
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