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: ...
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 politi ...
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 ...
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 Od ...
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, a ...
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 ...
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 the ...
John Seabrook: "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Monday 6/16 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 3 decades, discusses his recently released book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an Ame ...
Children's Story Time with Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen - "Cats in Construction Hats"(Post)Sunday 4/27 @ 3:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us for story time with children's book author Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen as she reads from her newest picture book, Cats in Construc ...
Elizabeth Margulis in conversation with Tania Lombrozo: "Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams"(Post)Tues 5/19 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis discusses her new book with Tania Lombrozo. Transported explores th ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kate Manne In Conversation: Princeton University Public Lectures(Post)Wed 2/18 @ 5:00PMMcCosh 50, Princeton University Presented by Princeton University Public Lectures: Join us as Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kate Manne engage in a wide-ranging conversation on femin ...
Hanna Garth: "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 the ...
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 ...
Princeton University Public Lectures presents Percival Everett(Post)Wed 3/25 @ 5:00PMMcCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University Percival Everett is one of the most innovative, provocative, and prolific writers of our time. A winner of the Pulitzer P ...
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 reve ...
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 ...
Curtis Dozier: "The White Pedestal"- A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 3/23 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street The classicist and author presents his book The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece a ...
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 ...