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 ...
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 ...
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium) Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery, and the Promise of America”(Post)Sun 4/26 @ 3:00PM Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, joined by Eddie Glaude, discusses her book "Jefferson on Race," exami ...
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 ...
Sanyu Mojola "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 2/2 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library Sociologist Sanyu Mojola, joined in conversation with Waverly Duck and Tukufu Zuberi, presents her new book Death by Design: Producing Racial Health In ...
Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Brandon McKoy: "Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past"(Post)Thurs 4/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as Dorothy A. Brown discusses her new book with Brandon McKoy. Getting to Reparations is a bold manifesto arguing that there is a cl ...
Cortney Lamar Charleston in conversation with Patricia Smith: "It’s Important I Remember: Poems"(Post)Thurs 4/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Cortney Lamar Charleston is joined by Patricia Smith to discuss his new collection of poems from Northwestern University Press. “History d ...
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 ...
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- ...
On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"(Post)Tues 4/21 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African ...
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Didi Jackson and Major Jackson(Post)Tues 2/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing presents the annual Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportuni ...