Books

Zachary Lazar’s new novel is a meditation on life in Trump’s America — and how to escape it.

In Iris Smyles’s new story collection, the pithy brilliance pours forth like water from a sculptural fountain.

Isaac Babel’s accounts of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 are so eerily reminiscent of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that reading Babel now one tries not to shudder at the cyclical madness of history. 

This is the autobiography of a career more than a man, and an extended essay on a philosophy of architecture.

Writing a biography of the couture-sporting, Slavic companion of “the most toxic leader in American history”? Sounds like trouble.

In the mind’s eye of a poet.

A novelist’s skillful dive into the complexities of the legendary Frick family of art collectors.

Martha Wainwright on the anxieties and influences of growing up in a musical dynasty.

From “New York,” a poetry collection by Lucas Hunt due out from Thane & Prose on May 2.

Truman Capote pulled back the curtain on lives that were only outwardly glamorous, and in some ways ended an era.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s new lecture series brings historians and authors of books with a historical focus for talks, Q&A sessions, and the inevitable wine and cheese.

New work based hard experience from a contributor of long standing.