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 ...
Save the Date: Paul North in conversation with Wendy Brown: Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy(Post)
Tues 11/3 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Paul North is joined in conversation with Wendy Brown. Princeton University Press’s new edition of Marx’s Capital, co-edited by North ...
“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& ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Third Reich of Dreams”: A roundtable on Charlotte Beradt’s study of the dreaming of political fables in Nazi Germany(Post)
Weds 4/22 @ 4:30 PMBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University
A roundtable on The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt's 1966 study of the dreaming of political fables in ...
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 ...
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 ...
D. Vance Smith in conversation with Simon Gikandi: "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" – A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Thurs 2/5 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street
Registration requested here
D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 B ...
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 ...
Audrey Truschke: "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Thursday 5/29 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
Audrey Truschke, professor of history and Asian Studies director at Rutgers University-Newark, presents her forthcoming book.
Much of world histo ...
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 ...
Anand Pandian in conversation with Elizabeth Anne Davis: "Something Between Us"(Post)
Tuesday 9/9 @ 6:00 PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Am ...
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 ...
