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Still in the World

Once more unto the urban grit with a master of verisimilitude, Richard Price.

Dec 12, 2024
Chompers, a History

Bill Schutt, a biology professor adept at addressing the general reader, is back with an amusing compendium of toothed animals, from horses to bats to George Washington.

Dec 5, 2024
For Folk’s Sake . . .

From Bob Dylan’s explosion on the scene to the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk, this is the way it was in Greenwich Village, a work of music history reviewed by a working musician.

Nov 27, 2024
Fall Is Good-Book Season

As autumn gets colder and darker, it's the perfect time to pull up a comfy chair, make a piping-hot beverage, and settle in with a good book. This list includes memoir, historical fiction, crime fiction, and more, both brand-new and recently released, that are also available in accessible formats like audio and large print.

Nov 22, 2024
South Fork Poetry: ‘Drifting Toward the Infinite I Grieve’

A writer grieves so she won’t fall apart.

Nov 21, 2024
A Sea of Troubles

In “Category Five” Porter Fox mixes sailing adventure with oceanic science to explore how the power of the seas could be used to help save the planet.

Nov 21, 2024
A Key to Happiness

Ellen T. White is out with a love letter to the hedonistic, freewheeling bottom of the continent, Key West, amply photographed by Missy Janes.

Nov 14, 2024
Book Markers: Schultz, Schutt, Levy

Philip Schultz airs out new poetry Saturday at The Church in Sag Harbor, while another poet, Wainscott’s Will Schutt, brings in a top prize for Italian translation. In New York, Francis Levy talks Einstein and Kafka with Ken Krimstein.

Nov 14, 2024
Tell Me True

Kids’ books of note from Kathleen King and Emma Walton Hamilton tell encouraging real-life stories, while Susan Verde simply encourages.

Nov 7, 2024
A Heart Wakes Up

The screenwriter, actor, and movie producer Edward Burns’s first novel is a sweet and sad Irish-Catholic coming-of-age story.

Oct 31, 2024
Pierced and Precocious

In “Wordhunter,” her new thriller, Stella Sands gives us a young, somewhat damaged protagonist and word fanatic who uses linguistic forensics to chase down a cyberstalker.

Oct 24, 2024
A Sentimental Education

The letters in Bill Henderson’s “Dear Boys” are addressed to twin grandsons in anticipation of their future adolescence, offering advice on how to live a good life.

Oct 17, 2024
In the Blink of an Eye

A handsome new coffee-table book shows off the skills and the life’s work of an N.B.A. photographer. Some of the greatest dunks in hoops history, too.

Oct 10, 2024
Book Markers for October 3, 2024

A Writer’s Desk residency at the college, Kathy Engel at Barnes & Noble, and David Browne’s history of Greenwich Village’s glory days at Sag Harbor Books.

Oct 3, 2024
The More Things Change

A beautifully put together volume about an artist and his work doubles as a history of Long Island’s development.

Oct 3, 2024
Stumbling Into a Life

You want New York in the ’70s? Guy Trebay’s “Do Something” is a small masterpiece celebrating its art, lit, and grit, its easy rents and hard times.

Sep 26, 2024
Spared the Bulldozer

The story behind the foresight and planning that left us so much public land for our collective enjoyment. Stories, plural, actually, and 27 distinct histories.

Sep 19, 2024
Man of the People

Meet Samson Occom (1723-1792), Mohegan, scholar, orator, Montauker, minister, synthesizer of native spirituality and Christianity, prolific author of religious tracts.

Sep 12, 2024
Poems That Invite Us In

In Kathy Engel’s timely new collection, “Dear Inheritors,” the poems do not sit still, they rise to the occasion of deep conversation, particularly when the subjects are tough.

Sep 5, 2024
An Opera Obsessive

Sex and drugs, sure, but especially opera: Ricky Ian Gordon lays it bare in telling the tale of his roller-coaster life as a composer.

Aug 29, 2024
Once More Unto Patchogue

Call it a cult following? Thomas McGonigle is out with a new paperback edition of his metafictional “Going to Patchogue.”

Aug 22, 2024
A Thriller Wrapped in a Mystery

Murder most fun? It may have come out while the days were still cold, but A.J. Finn’s “End of Story” is the beach read to end all beach reads.

Aug 22, 2024
A Call to Eco Action

Betsy McCully’s richly descriptive writing and photos create a compelling invitation to readers to get out and explore, and amount to a powerful call to action to preserve the endangered places of Long Island.

Aug 15, 2024
Book Markers for Aug. 15, 2024

Two Star contributors make good — Nanci Lagarenne reads from her new novel, “Scape Ghost,” in Southampton, and Dianne Moritz lands in “Chicken Soup for the Soul.”

Aug 15, 2024
The Biggest Con

How did Bernie Madoff get away with it for so long? And who knew? These questions and others are what Richard Behar’s new book, “Madoff: The Final Word,” addresses.

Aug 8, 2024
Literary Luminaries in the Park

East Hampton Library’s Authors Night will bring 100 writers to Herrick Park to sign and sell copies of their books, all in support of the library’s programs.

Aug 8, 2024
Alice McDermott Hits Fridays at Five

Alice McDermott, a top novelist, will visit Fridays at Five at the Hampton Library tomorrow with her latest, “Absolution,” about expat American women in Vietnam during the war.

Aug 1, 2024
Suddenly, One Summer

In her new novel of World War I Britain, Helen Simonson brings well-turned prose, well-drawn characters, a well-developed setting, and romance, romance, romance.

Aug 1, 2024
Book Markers for July 25, 2024

One Saturday, two book talks: a tale of Dutch Nazi resistance from John Tepper Marlin at the East Hampton Library, and thoughts on all things Montauk from Bill Akin at the Montauk Library.

Jul 25, 2024
Beyond Old Boys’ Club News

Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, is out with “The Rulebreaker,” a fascinating biography of Barbara Walters full of surprises even for dedicated followers of her career in TV news.

Jul 25, 2024