VICTOR KERPEL: The More Things Change
A bloated, catapulted pig free-falls toward the battlements of a high-walled fortress. Muslim defenders pour boiling oil onto attacking crusaders below. Arrows fly. Critics

Opinion: Carved Books And Wild Animals, A dreamed menagerie at Pritam and Eames
Animals real and imaginary - antelopes, rabbits, swans, an ibis, an anteater, a "wild beast" - are the subjects of Judy Kensley McKie's furniture, on view at the Pritam and Eames Gallery in East Hampton. The gallery has shown Ms. McKie's work for a quarter of a century.

Long Island Books: Reading A Woman's Mind
A former book editor's madcap first novel