Thurs 2/5 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Registration requested here D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
Audrey Truschke: "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thursday 5/29 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Audrey Truschke, professor of history and Asian Studies director at Rutgers University-Newark, presents her forthcoming book. Much of world histo ...
Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Brandon McKoy: "Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past"(Post)Thurs 4/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as Dorothy A. Brown discusses her new book with Brandon McKoy. Getting to Reparations is a bold manifesto arguing that there is a cl ...
Patrick McDonnell: "The Gift of Everything"(Post)Thurs 12/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as we celebrate Patrick McDonnell's newest book, The Gift of Everything, a joyful rhyming companion to the New York Times bestselling cl ...
An Evening with Patrick McDonnell: "The Gift of Everything"(Post)Thursday 12/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Patrick McDonnell's new book. This heartwarming story, perfect for the holiday season, offers a ...
The Lewis Center for the Arts presents The C. K. Williams Reading Series: A Reading by Jamel Brinkley and Senior Thesis Students(Post)Tues 10/27 @ 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 Pr ...
The Effron Center for the Study of America presents Ada Ferrer: "Keeper of my Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter"(Post)Thurs 10/1 @ 4:30PM Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University Click here for more information From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ada Ferrer comes a memoir about migration, separ ...
Steven Weitzman in conversation with Leora Batnitzky: "Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World"(Post)Tues 3/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street People have been telling and retelling stories about disasters for as long as they have been telling stories. One of the oldest of such stor ...
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 ...
Misty Heggeness: "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine the Economy" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 3/2 @ 6:30PMThe Princeton Public Library Misty Heggeness’s new book views pop culture through a feminist lens that illuminates how women influence and shape the economy. Swiftynomics asses ...
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 edit ...
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 Rev ...
William Lewis: "Preserving the Pines: New Jersey and the Origins of Environmentalism"(Post)Sunday 6/1 @ 3:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In the early twentieth century, an interconnected web of men and women led by Dr. V.E. Vivian fought for and won a better future in Whitesbog Vi ...
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 ...
The Princeton Public Library presents “A Revolutionary Take on Cocktails & History” with author Brooke Barbier(Post)Fri 7/31 @ 5:00PMYankee Doodle Tap Room & Ballroom, 10 Palmer Square East A happy hour featuring craft cocktails and ciders from Ironbound Farm sets the stage for Brooke Barbier's presentation o ...
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 Tita ...
Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Christy Wampole: "Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum"(Post)Thursday 4/24 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street In an era of rapid change, the role of museums and art has never been more vital in connecting the past to the present. Laurence des Ca ...
Agustín Fuentes in conversation with Catherine Clune-Taylor(Post)Thursday 5/8 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men ...
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium) Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, ...
Simon Morrison in conversation with Renata Kapilevich: "A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"(Post)Weds 4/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Renata Kapilevich. A Kingdom and a Village is an erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city de ...