Books

Reconsidering Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” as a treatise on P.T.S.D.

The author of “Lit Life” looks back at the highlights of the year that was in literature.

A National Book Award-winning novelist on her art and craft — and East Hampton’s Main Street, too.

Impressive selections of used, rare, and collectible books can be found in local shops like Black Cat Books on Shelter Island, Sag Harbor Books and Southampton Books, and Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, and some of these are also tapping the internet to redirect the world’s flow of used books from extinction (and landfills) to readers who truly care for and appreciate them.

Jeffrey Sussman weaves together tales of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, how they put their lives on the line to oppose a maniacal regime.

Angela Merkel’s high-mindedness and manifold good deeds are deftly, sympathetically described in Kati Marton’s new biography.

The Pushcart “Best of the Small Presses” anthology is back, offering a wide spectrum of voices and contributions that survey abuses specific to our moment.

A view from the ferry.

Barbara Lazear Ascher’s exquisitely crafted memoir describes a journey of love, pain, grief, and back again.

In her new novel, Eileen Obser clearly shows herself to be an authority on her subject: renting rooms to the young, self-absorbed, inconsiderate, conniving, and broke.

In the artist and critic Edith Schloss’s newly compiled memoir, the New York City of the Abstract Expressionist era explodes into a series of vivid canvases.

The professor and researcher Bill Schutt leads us on a journey through all things heart with a light hand and at times even humor.