Books

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.

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

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

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.

“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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

No ships off the empty coast in February? No nothing? The birds say different.

Rachel Shteir delivers a fresh, scholarly reassessment of a legendary second-wave feminist who’s taken her lumps in recent years.

A reading by Vanessa Cuti, the author of “The Tip Line,” a thriller based on the Gilgo Beach murders, will launch the monthly Writers Speak series at Stony Brook Southampton.

Carole Stone’s latest collection offers understated poems of loss, widowhood, and forging on, but nowhere is there self-pity or bitterness, only optimism.

In her memoir “Castles & Ruins,” Rue Matthiessen looks to recapture the mystery and magic of Ireland — and of her mother.

Stan Herman’s memoir details the successful career of a designer both popular and commercial, while evoking all the color and character of the old garment district.

In “Lost Long Island,” Richard Panchyk lays out 21 examples of industries, people, places, things, and ways of life that have vanished from our fair Island.

Céline Keating’s novel tells a story of Montauk vanishing before our eyes, with all the underlying social and economic tensions and environmental woes triggered by its booming popularity.