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 history ch
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 o
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 Princ
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 offers a s
Dave Zirin in conversation with Brian Jones: "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn"(Post)
Wed 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a conversation with Dave Zirin on his biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive
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 Parks’ d
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series: A Reading by Aracelis Girmay and Kaveh Akbar(Post)
Tues 11/11 @ 6:00Pm
Labyrinth 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 opportunity
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.
This event was r
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 of the 2025-2
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 American chu
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 Lab
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 list
"Find Waldo Local" in Princeton July 1-30(Post)
Celebration Party July 1, 2026 at 4:00 - 6:00PM at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton
FIND WALDO LOCAL at participating businesses in downtown Princeton July 1 through July 31
Where’s Wald
Dan-el Padilla Peralta in conversation with Kate Meng Brassel: "Classicism and Other Phobias" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)
Wednesday 9/10 @ 6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is joined by Kate Meng Brassel to discuss his new book Classicism and Other Phobias. The book, based on W.E.B. Du Bo
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 thei
Peniel Joseph In Conversation with Laurence Ralph: "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution" – A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
9/11 @ 6:00 PM
Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black
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 cle
New Jersey Independent Bookstore Crawl(Post)
Fri 6/5 - Sun 6/7; 10:00AM - 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street
Labyrinth Books will participate in the New Jersey Bookstore Crawl from June 5-7, 2026. The NJ Bookstore Crawl, an annual
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," examining hi
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 Wholly
