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 ...
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 ...
Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason: "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World"(Post)Wed 9/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join Vicky Osterweil in conversation with Bill Gleason around her new book The Extended Universe, a provocative history of Disney’s ...
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 ...
Brian Jones in conversation with Naomi Murakawa: "Black History Is for Everyone"(Post)Wed 1/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Longtime educator Brian Jones discusses his new book with Naomi Murakawa. Black History Is for Everyone explores how the study of Black hist ...
Shatema Threadcraft in conversation with Wendy Brown: "The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy"(Post)Thurs 11/20 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Black death and Black grief are among the most important forces in contemporary American politics. As Shatema Threadcraft argues in The Labors ...
Maria Pinto: "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival"(Post)Thurs 2/19 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Maria Pinto’s debut book is a beautiful examination of nature and human connection. Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto off ...
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 ...
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 lis ...
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 ...
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 P ...
CANCELLED--Shatema Threadcraft in Conversation with Reena Goldthree: "The Labors of Resurrection"(Post)Mon 2/23 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library Please note this event has been cancelled due to inclement weather. The author, joined in conversation by Reena Goldthree, presents her new book The La ...
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 ...
Kory Stamper "True Color"–A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Weds 4/8 @ 6:30PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street The author is joined by Princeton Public Library’s humanities specialist Cliff Robinson to discuss her new book True Color: ...
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 ...
"Find Waldo Local" in Princeton July 1-30(Post)Celebration Party July 1, 2026 at 4:00 - 6:00PM at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton FIND WALDO LOCAL at participating businesses in downtown Princeton July 1 through July 31 Where&rsquo ...
America, U.S.A. by Eddie S. Glaude Jr: Signed copies available now(Post)Signed copies of America, U.S.A. are available exclusively with Labyrinth Books. Order your copy of the signed edition here or visit us to place an order with a bookseller. Get a behind- ...
Eddie Glaude Jr. in conversation with Naomi Murakawa: "America, U.S.A: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Tues 9/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as Eddie Glaude Jr., New York Times-bestselling author of Begin Again, discusses his latest book with Naomi Murakawa. America, U.S.A. is ...
D. Vance Smith in conversation with Simon Gikandi: "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" – A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)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 ...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta in conversation with Kate Meng Brassel: "Classicism and Other Phobias" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)Wednesday 9/10 @ 6:00 PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Dan-el Padilla Peralta is joined by Kate Meng Brassel to discuss his new book Classicism and Other Phobias. The book, based on W.E.B. Du B ...
