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 Egyp
Kyle Harper: "The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction"(Post)10/22 @ 6:00PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Kyle Harper discusses his latest book The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Ext
Mary Fontana: "Strangers in the Province of Joy: Practicing Radical Hospitality on the US - Mexico Border"(Post)Wed 12/2 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Mary Fontana presents her new book. Strangers in the Province of Joy is the story of America writ small—a nation founded by immigrants and its sh
Alex Dawson in conversation with Jason Rekulak: "Welcome to White Hart"(Post)Thurs 12/10 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Alex Dawson is joined in conversation with Jason Rekulak. With special guest, alt-folk singer Arlan Feiles, singing songs inspired by the book
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
"Bob Dylan: DONT LOOK BACK” – A film screening and discussion featuring Sean Wilentz(Post)Wed 10/21 @ 7:00PMPrinceton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street Tickets available here Sean Wilentz, Professor of American History at Princeton University, will introduce this screening of the document
Joyce Carol Oates and Katherine Nouri Hughes: Readings and a Conversation(Post)Wed 9/23 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Join us as we celebrate new fiction from Katherine Nouri Hughes and Joyce Carol Oates. The authors will give readings from their recent work and be
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
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium) Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, a
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
The Effron Center for the Study of America presents Ada Ferrer: "Keeper of my Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter"(Post)Thurs 10/1 @ 4:30PM Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University Click here for more information From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ada Ferrer comes a memoir about migration, separation, and t
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
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
Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsio in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore(Post)Thursday 3/6 at 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence.
What’s So Great About “The Great Gatsby”?(Post)Monday 4/28 @ 4:30PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Free registration required. Register here. Featuring The Great Gatsby scholars Maureen Corrigan, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Kirk Curnutt, and mod
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
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
Fund for Irish Studies: Conversation with Yiyun Li — Music Against the Night(Post)Fri 10/30 4:30-6:00PMLocation Taplin Auditorium, Fine HallFree Tickets Required - register here Yiyun Li, Pulitzer Prize winner and Princeton Professor of Creative Writing, launches her new novel, Mu