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
Cynthia McVay: "Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place"(Post)Sun 6/28 @ 1:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In Under the Crucian Sun, environmentalist and creative Cynthia McVay sets foot on the island of St. Croix in 2018 for the first time. She
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 essential accou
The Lewis Center for the Arts presesnts Sondheim’s Afterlives Symposium(Post)Thurs 11/5 1:00-6:00PMWallace TheaterOpen to the publicFree Tickets Required: Register here An artistic, scholarly, and personal celebration of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most
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
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
The Fund for Irish Studies presents a reading by Anne Enright(Post)Fri 9/12 @ 4:30PM James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St. Free tickets required - tickets available here Award-winning writer Anne Enright kicks off the 2025-26 Fund for Irish Studies Serie
Simon Morrison in conversation with Renata Kapilevich: "A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"(Post)Weds 4/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Renata Kapilevich. A Kingdom and a Village is an erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city def
“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 Nazi G
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation betw
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 Odyssey. Widely kn
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 Revolution. This event
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