Edward Tenner: "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences," A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Wednesday 6/4 @ 7:00pm
Princeton Public Library
Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore the surprises of human ingenuity
How did the addition of lifeboats after the Tita ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Second Installment of "Writers on Writing" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration featuring Amy Jo Burns, Anica Mrose Rissi, John Vercher, and Alexandra Villasante(Post)
Thurs 7/30 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join acclaimed authors Amy Jo Burns (Wait for Me), Anica Mrose Rissi (Girl Reflected in Knife), John Vercher (Devil Is Fine), and Alexandra ...
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 ...
Althea Ward Clark Reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge & Hisham Matar(Post)
Tues 3/24 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge, a 2019-20 Princeton University Hodder Fellow, and 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hisham Matar read from their wor ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What’s So Great About “The Great Gatsby”?(Post)
Monday 4/28 @ 4:30PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Free registration required. Register here.
Featuring The Great Gatsby scholars Maureen Corrigan, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Kirk Curnutt, a ...
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 ...
Kory Stamper "True Color"–A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
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: ...
Matthew Halteman in conversation with Andrew Chignell(Post)
Thursday 5/1 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Perhaps you’ve looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that very ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
