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
Noel Rubinton: "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thursday 5/15 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Noel Rubinton discusses his recently published book Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, an annotated guide to the work
Misty Heggeness: "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine the Economy" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 3/2 @ 6:30PMThe Princeton Public Library Misty Heggeness’s new book views pop culture through a feminist lens that illuminates how women influence and shape the economy. Swiftynomics assesses the
Sanyu Mojola "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 2/2 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library Sociologist Sanyu Mojola, joined in conversation with Waverly Duck and Tukufu Zuberi, presents her new book Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Ine
Owen Zidar in conversation with Alan Blinder: "The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)Wed 9/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us for a discussion between Owen Zidar and Alan Blinder. The Everywhere Millionaire is Zidar’s groundbreaking new portrait, co-authored with E
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 thei
Priya Vulchi in conversation with Ruha Benjamin(Post)Monday 4/14 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library Priya Vulchi is joined in conversation by Ruha Benjamin to discuss her latest book, Good Friends: Bonds that Change Us and the World. Friendship is g
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
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture 2025(Post)Thursday 4/3 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library, Community Room Also streaming live on Youtube RSVP to attend in person or online Princeton Theological Seminary presents The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 stori
Cynthia A. Kierner: "The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America"(Post)Thurs 6/4 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University This event is presented by The Department of History’s Revolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series. The Spurgin f
Tom Toro in Conversation with Patrick McDonnell - A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)Sun 12/7 @ 11:00 AMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon The author presents and discusses his collection And to Think We Started as a Book Club... Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastries.
“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
Princeton University Public Lectures presents Percival Everett(Post)Wed 3/25 @ 5:00PMMcCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University Percival Everett is one of the most innovative, provocative, and prolific writers of our time. A winner of the Pulitzer Pr
Christopher Eisgruber: "Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 10/20 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber discusses his book Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right. Free Regist
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 legen
Joseph Fronczak in conversation with Shiri Pasternak: "The Five Ages of Antifascism"(Post)Weds 4/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Joseph Fronczak, research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of History, is joined in conversation with Shiri Pasternak about his new boo
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
Agustín Fuentes in conversation with Catherine Clune-Taylor(Post)Thursday 5/8 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men,
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