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Poetry, Poetry — and More Poetry

Poetry fans, take note: From Lucas Hunt in Bridgehampton to Leah Umansky and Joyce Jacobson in Sag Harbor to Bruce Whitacre in both places, readings abound.

Jul 18, 2024
Brian’s Song

Unvarnished, unfiltered, and insidery, here are the Beatles on the eve of John Lennon’s assassination, with one heck of a Yoko Ono story to boot.

Jul 18, 2024
Fletcher Is in Trouble

Following her hit “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” Taffy Brodesser-Akner returns with a new exploration of family life, this one spurred by a patriarch’s kidnapping.

Jul 11, 2024
Talent Wins Out

Audrey Flack, an art world iconoclast, died on Friday. Her memoir holds nothing back, from the boorish big boys to parsing who the real feminists were to knowing when she nailed a masterpiece.

Jul 3, 2024
Female Innovators of Retail

Julie Satow’s book reminds us how Hortense Odlum of Bonwit Teller, Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, and Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel remade American fashion retailing.

Jun 27, 2024
Kathy Engel Reads New Poems

Kathy Engel will read from “Dear Inheritors,” her new poetry collection, on Sunday at 5 p.m. at the meetinghouse of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton. Five other poets will join in.

Jun 20, 2024
Dublin Cloak-and-Dagger

Flynn Berry’s taut new thriller follows two Belfast sisters and I.R.A. informants as they flee a troubled past to make new lives in Dublin.

Jun 19, 2024
To Be Gay and Conservative

Neil J. Young has given us a nuanced look at the roles gay people have played in conservative American politics from the 1920s to the Biden administration.

Jun 12, 2024
Excavating the Past 

Paul Auster’s last novel follows a philosophy professor as he digs through his lost wife’s poems and her journal of Vietnam-era America.

Jun 5, 2024
Tea and Poets Three at the Library

Poets with poetry collections in hand will convene in the East Hampton Library’s courtyard on Saturday for a reading.

Jun 5, 2024
The Women Behind T.R.

Who knew the most masculine of American presidents was in fact a product of the nurturing of the women in his life?

May 29, 2024
Possessed by Sea and Sky

Re-released after 25 years, Jon Schueler’s memoir, “The Sound of Sleat,” remains a gripping portrait of an artist in the throes of the creative impulse.

May 22, 2024
Missed Signals

“The Hearing Test,” Eliza Barry Callahan’s revelatory debut novel, finds our heroine chasing down the cause of a deafness as mysterious as it is sudden.

May 15, 2024
A Room With Mission and Mystique

Who better to lead a tour through the evolution of the white-knuckling, history-making Situation Room than George Stephanopoulos, White House veteran?

May 8, 2024
South Fork Poetry for May 2, 2024

Another selection from George Held’s bird book slash poetry book.

May 2, 2024
Notes on a Tragedy

Clare McHugh’s new novel explores the tangled webs of Russia’s star-crossed royals. And reader, family trees are included.

May 1, 2024
Into the Blurry Beyond

Her work for Military Intelligence took Marguerite Harrison, foreign correspondent and socialite, across the world undercover, fur coat and evening dresses in tow. Incredible? Read on.

Apr 24, 2024
Book Markers: The Poetry Edition

Bliss Morehead poetry grant winners read on Shelter Island, and Kimiko Hahn of the North Fork stops by the White House.

Apr 24, 2024
The People’s Artist

Brad Gooch continues his explorations of the culture of the 1980s in “Radiant,” his biography of the art star and activist Keith Haring.

Apr 17, 2024
Our Security Fetish

Fearmongering and the ubiquity of security capitalism are everyone’s problem, two academics write in “Trapped,” a powerful yet accessible volume.

Apr 10, 2024
The New York Experiment

Behold “Language City,” a linguistic Baedeker of New York, especially its outer boroughs, which have become home to so many immigrant populations. But can the new Babel work?

Apr 3, 2024
An Early D.I.Y. Master

Frank Johnson drew hundreds of remarkably accomplished comic strips over five decades, without any formal training in art and in complete obscurity. Until now.

Mar 27, 2024
South Fork Poetry: ‘Osprey’

From a new collection by George Held, just in time for the osprey’s arrival.

Mar 20, 2024
Across the Psyche’s Terrain

Irene Cairo’s collection of closely observed, ruminative stories, often examining family life, will reward rereading.

Mar 20, 2024
Where Have We Been, Where Are We Headed?

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian argues that the threats to the American Republic we see today have been present in our culture from the start.

Mar 13, 2024
Book Markers: Sussman’s Gangsters, Scholarships for Writers

Jeffrey Sussman reads from “Tinseltown Gangsters” twice over, while the Southampton Writers Conference scholarship deadline looms.

Mar 6, 2024
Owl in the Family

An eminent ecologist’s life is changed when he rescues an injured screech owlet and they come to a certain, yes, understanding.

Mar 6, 2024
A Spy’s Seduction

In this sophisticated espionage novel, Lea Carpenter’s young heroine seeks experience in her search for an identity. She gets more than she bargained for.

Feb 28, 2024
Against the Grain

Ellen Feldman’s new historical novel brings vivid characters, juicy details, skillful pacing, and a solid plot, all in post-World War II New York.

Feb 21, 2024
Chaskey Talks Cultivation and Kinship

The author of “Soil and Spirit” will be in discussion with Evan Harris, writer and Star book reviewer, on Saturday at Guild Hall.

Feb 21, 2024