Books

Thomas Harris, the undisputed king of memorable grotesquerie, returns with a murderous albino pornographer, sex trafficker, torturer, and organ harvester in his long-awaited new thriller.

“What better way to kick off the season than baseball and architecture?” asks Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic, who will do just that when he talks about his new book on Sunday at 5 p.m. at BookHampton.

An appraisal of Winsor McCay, an early master of animation and the most skilled and innovative newspaper cartoonist in the medium’s history, by the country’s pre-eminent scholar of animation.

A new poem by Bernard Goldhirsch of Springs

The legendary Wild Bill Hickok, the fastest gunslinger in the West, also dressed well, bathed regularly, and wrote letters home to his mom.

Of all the foes Richard Holbrooke faced across diplomatic negotiating tables and within the upper echelons of American government, his worst enemy was frequently himself.

As couturier to high-profile women, Isaac Mizrahi dressed the likes of Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Liza Minnelli, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Hillary Clinton, Diane Sawyer, Sharon Stone, Sandra Bernhardt, and Diane Keaton.

 “No news is good news” is not a credo generally favored by journalists and the publishers of books they produce. But there is remarkable resonance in “A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades” because Marie Brenner’s collection of previously published magazine stories touches on so many subjects still demanding our attention.