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 ...
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 lege ...
Noel Rubinton: "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thursday 5/15 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Noel Rubinton discusses his recently published book Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, an annotated guide to the wor ...
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 ...
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation bet ...
Beth Lew-Williams in conversation with Anne Cheng: "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law"(Post)Tues 9/16 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday li ...
Princeton Public Lectures present Gabriel Zucman: “Wealth, Power, and Democracy”(Post)Tues 4/15 @ 5:00PMMcCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University The rise of extreme wealth has been a defining feature of the U.S. and global economy over the past 15 years. Addressing this challenge re ...
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 ...
“The Third Reich of Dreams”: A roundtable on Charlotte Beradt’s study of the dreaming of political fables in Nazi Germany(Post)Weds 4/22 @ 4:30 PMBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University A roundtable on The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt's 1966 study of the dreaming of political fables in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Many Minds, Many Stripes”: A Princeton Graduate Alumni Author Roundtable(Post)Thurs 10/9 @ 1:30PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join a lively conversation with Princeton University graduate alumni authors Jasmin Darznik, Eszter Hargittai, Peter Lighte, and Xita Rubert as ...
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&r ...
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 Wholl ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 p ...
Peter Brooks in conversation with Anne Cheng: "Henry James Comes Home" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)Tues 11/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brook ...