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 ...
Robert G. Parkinson: "Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence"(Post)Tues 6/30 @ 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 ...
Cynthia McVay: "Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place"(Post)Sun 6/28 @ 1:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In Under the Crucian Sun, environmentalist and creative Cynthia McVay sets foot on the island of St. Croix in 2018 for the ...
Anand Pandian in conversation with Elizabeth Anne Davis: "Something Between Us"(Post)Tuesday 9/9 @ 6:00 PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Am ...
A Conversation on Amy Kaplan's "Our American Israel"-- Featuring Joan Scott & Chris Hedges(Post)Wednesday 4/9 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street On the occasion of the paperback release of Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel, Chris Hedges and Joan Scott discuss Kaplan’s es ...
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 ...
“On the Palestinian Diaspora and the Dream of Return”: A conversation between Professor Max Weiss and Hannah Lillith Assadi on her novel "Paradiso 17"(Post)Tues 3/31 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a conversation between Professor Max Weiss and Hannah Lillith Assadi on her novel Paradiso 17, an intimate, sweeping tale of one man& ...
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 ...
"The Librarians" screening at Princeton Garden Theatre with Princeton Public Library(Post)Mon 10/13 @ 7:00PMPrinceton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street In partnership with Princeton Garden Theatre and Princeton Public Library for Banned Books Week, this screening of The Librarians highli ...
Library Live at Labyrinth Presents Jack Lohmann in conversation with Brian Eugenio Herrera(Post)Thursday 3/27 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street A profound and lyrical reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it, told through th ...
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 ...
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner in conversation with Brian Herrera: "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" --A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)9/15 @ 7:00 PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is joined by Brian Herrera to discuss his recently released biography of the creator of Hamilton and In the Heig ...
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 ...
Brian Soucek in conversation with Joan Scott: "The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education"(Post)Thurs 1/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Law professor Brian Soucek discusses his new book with Joan Scott. The Opinionated University demonstrates why institutional neutrality is nothi ...
Durba Mitra & Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conversation, facilitated by Lorgia García Peña: "The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism"(Post)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 ...
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 dramatical ...
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 ...
Joseph Fronczak in conversation with Shiri Pasternak: "The Five Ages of Antifascism"(Post)Weds 4/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Joseph Fronczak, research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of History, is joined in conversation with Shiri Pasternak about his ...
Book Signing with Dave Eggers - Meet Dave and get a signed paperback copy of The Eyes & The Impossible(Post)Saturday 4/5 @ 10:00AM- 11:00AM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us for a meet & greet with Dave and get a signed paperback copy of Newbery Medal winner The Eyes & The Impossible.
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 ...
