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 Odyssey. Widely kn
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 fragment
Andrew Martin in conversation with Lynn Steger Strong: "Down Time: A Novel"(Post)Tues 4/7 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Andrew Martin discusses his new novel with Lynn Steger Strong. Down Time is a terribly funny and lovably louche novel about five friends growing
DATE CHANGE: Paul North in conversation with Wendy Brown: Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy(Post)Thurs 4/1 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE CHANGE TO APRIL 1, 2027. Paul North is joined in conversation with Wendy Brown. Princeton University Press’s new edition of
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
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 paradigm tha
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 dramatically over
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 a med
Matthew Quick in conversation with Amy Jo Burns: A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration -- "Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir"(Post)Tues 7/21 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Matthew Quick, bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, discusses his recently published memoir Dad, Love, Me with Am
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 intelle
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
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 Titan
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 that? Whe
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 Soc
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’21 Reading S
“Many Minds, Many Stripes”: A Princeton Graduate Alumni Author Roundtable(Post)Thurs 10/9 @ 1:30PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join a lively conversation with Princeton University graduate alumni authors Jasmin Darznik, Eszter Hargittai, Peter Lighte, and Xita Rubert as t
Elaine Pagels in conversation with Eliza Griswold(Post)Tuesday 4/8 @ 6:00pm Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a po
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 Amer
The Princeton Public Library's Book Brunch featuring Chad Harbach -- A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)10/25 @ 11:00AM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Bestselling author Chad Harbach is joined by Matthew Thomas to discuss his recently released novel The Brightness. Doors
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Katie Farris and Jamil Jan Kochai(Post)Tues 9/22 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Acclaimed writers and Princeton faculty members kick-off the 2026-27 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series at Princeton The Althea Ward Clark W