Books

A tale of two teens, a grudge, and a gun reveals a way to address violence in our cities.

A genealogy test answers nagging questions of identity and prompts a deeper search.

Try as I might in researching “The Lost Boys of Montauk,” the youngest of the foursome, Scott Clarke, remained an enigma. Until now.

A Pulitzer winner describes how he reached other writerly spirits, those of note and those just learning to express themselves.

This historical Y.A. novel follows a forced evacuation from Nova Scotia, and a teenage girl who lands in colonial East Hampton.

The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

This assemblage of lyric sheets, recollections, photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings is nothing if not unconventional.

Philip Schultz and Jill Bialosky, poet turned memoirist and his editor, will have a meeting of the minds Friday in Sag Harbor.

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.