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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roy Scranton in conversation with Andrew Cole: "Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress"(Post)
Thurs 9/18 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Roy Scranton discusses his new book Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress with Andrew Cole
Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms ...
The Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Sinéad Gleeson(Post)
Fri 10/3 @ 4:30PM
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Free tickets required - tickets available here
Bestselling writer and editor Sinéad Gleeson reads from her work as part ...
"Find Waldo Local" in Princeton July 1-30(Post)
Celebration Party July 3, 2026 at 4:00PM at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton
FIND WALDO LOCAL at participating businesses in downtown Princeton July 1 through July 31
Where’s Wald ...
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 ...
"Articulate” Book Talk with Rachel Kolb(Post)
Fri 11/7 @ 4:30PM219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University
Join us for a book talk and signing by deaf writer and educator Rachel Kolb, who grew up between signing and speaking worlds as part of th ...
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 ...
Merlin Holland Lectures on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”(Post)
Fri 4/10 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street
Biographer and editor Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between t ...
Elaine Pagels in conversation with Eliza Griswold(Post)
Tuesday 4/8 @ 6:00pm
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of h ...
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 ...
