Books

“Yossarian Slept Here”
Erica Heller
Simon and Schuster, $25

“Just One Catch”
Tracy Daugherty...

The current state of the United States maddens Ted Rall, and in his most recent book, which touches on such problems as income inequality, political hypocrisy, crony capitalism, he seeks to enrage...

“The Book of Obama”
Ted Rall
Seven Stories, $14.95

    If you are an adult and you write, or even if you don’t, Stony Brook South­ampton’s Florence Writers Workshop is a trip worth considering.

It’s a Book, It’s a Periodical . . .
    No, it’s the new Southampton Review, volume VI, number 2, summer 2012, 232 pages, retailing for...

 “At the Fights”
Edited by George Kimball
and John Schulian
Library of America, $19.95

   Boxing has inspired...

  “Killing the Messenger”
Thomas Peele
Crown, $26

   On Aug. 2, 2007, a 19-year-old male wielding a handheld shotgun...

    There have been several exhibitions and related events surrounding the 100th anniversary of Jackson Pollock’s birth in January. While not a cause for celebration, the...

With his back to the dunes,
Harry reclines, his still-toned legs
Crossed at the ankles,
On a foot-rested beach chair,
Watching, on a laptop
Balanced on his...