Books

Was it a White House cover-up of dangerous incapacity? A plague of self-deception afflicting President Biden and those in his inner circle? Chris Whipple picks through the car wreck that was the 2024 election.

Get the man’s old mentor on the horn. Please.

Ken Miller’s novel “High Finance” sends up Wall Street culture while exploring weighty matters — among other things, the grim wreckage of the crash of ’08.

In Adam Ross’s “Playworld,” the fictional family of four seems as fully rendered as the 1980 New York City he meticulously details, and the result is at once unsettling, relatable, and funny.

The East Hampton Library’s Authors Night fund-raiser will bring to the village’s Herrick Park a hundred authors working across all genres.

Four poets will read from their work in the gardens of the Leiber Collection in Springs on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

Colm Toibin will put in an appearance at Fridays at Five at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Aug. 8, reading from his latest novel, “Long Island.”

For her just-released science-fiction novel, “Black Hole Highway,” Georgia Flight, an East Hampton High School English teacher, drew inspiration from stories like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Star Wars,” and the work of Kurt Vonnegut — whimsical, fun to read, and not weighed down by extensive passages of “dreary” world-building.

The old Bradley’s on University, the ghost of Albert’s French restaurant with its Eiffel Tower out front, and other, farther afield travels and disappearances.

Taking up a paddle on a long-ago July Fourth weekend.

A series of poetry readings lands in a choice location in Springs on Tuesday, as Rosalind Brenner, Dee Slavutin, Walter Donway, and Linda Opyr read from their work, with a museum tour and refreshments.

“The End Is the Beginning” is an eloquent and moving account of the life of Jill Bialosky’s mother, Iris. Recalled backward, it is also a nuanced examination of aging and of the mother-daughter bond.

Ah, parenthood when your children are grown.

In this poignant memoir, Mark Joseph Williams, a victim of clergy sexual abuse, tells of how he learned to combat his inner storm with the dignity, grace, and love he discovered in his faith.

Lindsay Hill’s strangely riveting new novel, “Tidal Lock,” explores a sense of place as psycho-emotional landscape.

The art dealer Larry Gagosian is the new owner of the stalwart East Hampton Village bookstore, BookHampton, which has been for sale since the fall. "It would have been a horrible thing to lose that bookstore," he said Thursday. "When I heard it was for sale, I jumped at the opportunity."

What if T.S. Eliot had started at Exit 70 on the Long Island Expressway?

Jill Bialosky will read from her brand-new book, “The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother,” on Saturday at The Church in Sag Harbor.

The love story in Jessica Soffer’s “This Is a Love Story” belongs to Abe and Jane, but it loops in their art dealer son, Abe’s female former student, and, for good measure, Central Park.

In his new book, “The Angry Skies: A Physician’s Journey Into Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness,” Dr. Blake Kerr writes of his six trips to Cambodia, traveling to Khmer Rouge enclaves, meeting some of the architects of the genocide, and gathering information from victims and perpetrators of the atrocities there.

Partisanship may have unleashed the current political chaos, but Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor, looks back at party loyalty that was and ahead to how partisanship might be beneficial in the future.

It was hard for our reviewer to get past the cover of Colm Toibin’s latest, “Long Island,” but get beyond it he did, and inside he found an unwanted pregnancy, thundering silences, and his own skepticism.

A daughter of rock-and-roll royalty pens a confessional yet jokey non-memoir of a life creatively lived.

Tales of Hollywood successes and struggles, of difficult executives and flatulent actors — it’s Barry Sonnenfeld’s latest.

It’s the return of the college’s arts journal, The Southampton Review, and a story of the Dutch Resistance during World War II gets a nod from Kirkus.

Christopher Cox’s exploration of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency is simultaneously enlightening and unflattering, with a focus on his lengthy stonewalling of the suffragist movement.

The annual Pushcart Prize anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays is a barometer of our culture, and this year the word that echoes through it is “aftermath,” as we collectively pick among the ruins, searching for meaning.

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

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.

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.