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
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
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
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
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Katie Farris and Jamil Jan Kochai(Post)
Tues 9/22 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Acclaimed writers and Princeton faculty members kick-off the 2026-27 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series at Princeton
The Althea Ward Clark W
Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Megan McDowell: "The Queen of Swords: A journey through the Princeton Archives of Elena Garro"(Post)
Wed 11/12 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Queen of Swords Tour: Jazmina Barrera and Megan McDowell on Elena GarroAuthor Jazmina Barrera, on tour from Mexico City, and translator Megan
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
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
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
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
Susan Stewart in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "Bramble"(Post)
Tues 4/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold. Bramble is a med
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
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
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
DATE CHANGE: Ed Park in conversation with Yiyun Li: "Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties"(Post)
Thurs 9/17 @ 6:00PM--PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGELabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Ed Park discusses his new book with Yiyun Li. Three Tenses is an elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragment
Princeton 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’ Program in Creative Writing presents Dunya Mikhail: The 2026-2027 Holmes Poetry Reading(Post)
Tues 10/6 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing presents a poetry reading by Dunya Mikhail, the 2026-2027 Theodore H. Holmes ’51
The Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Sinéad Gleeson(Post)
Fri 10/3 @ 4:30PM
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Free tickets required - tickets available here
Bestselling writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson reads from her work as part of the 2025-2
Fund for Irish Studies: Conversation with Yiyun Li — Music Against the Night(Post)
Fri 10/30 4:30-6:00PMLocation Taplin Auditorium, Fine HallFree Tickets Required - register here
Yiyun Li, Pulitzer Prize winner and Princeton Professor of Creative Writing, launches her new novel, Mu
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
