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 ...
Shelley Frisch in conversation with Michael Wood: "Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind" – A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Wed 9/30 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Shelley Frisch is joined in conversation with Michael Wood about her translation of Thomas Meyer’s definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory ...
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 ...
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 ...
DATE CHANGE: Ed Park in conversation with Yiyun Li: "Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties"(Post)Thurs 9/17 @ 6:00PM--PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGELabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Ed Park discusses his new book with Yiyun Li. Three Tenses is an elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragmen ...
“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& ...
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 ...
Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsio in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore(Post)Thursday 3/6 at 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sen ...
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 ...
Author Tea: Sally Hepworth, presented by Princeton Public Library(Post)Sat 5/2 @ 3:00 PMThe Historical Society of Princeton's Updike Farmstead Australian author Sally Hepworth discusses and signs copies of Mad Mabel at this event at the Historical So ...
Children's Story Time with Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen - "Cats in Construction Hats"(Post)Sunday 4/27 @ 3:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us for story time with children's book author Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen as she reads from her newest picture book, Cats in Construc ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hanna Garth: "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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Summer Reading Soirée featuring Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie: Presented by Princeton Public Library(Post)Wed 7/8 @ 6:30PMMorven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street The authors discuss and sign copies of A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams at this annual gathering featuring refreshments, ...
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, ...
Daniel Heller-Roazen in conversation with Michael Wood: Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration (Post)Tues 2/3 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Daniel Heller-Roazen discusses his new book Far Calls with Michael Wood. Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies is an inquiry into the the ...
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 ...