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Man on the Run

For the Paul McCartney superfan, here’s a mammoth tome documenting seemingly every waking moment of his life from 1969 to 1973. 

Apr 12, 2023
Their Better Halves

Behold codependency, substance abuse, lovelessness, lack of sexual compatibility, grievous inequity, and unsettling disrespect as Carmela Ciuraru chronicles five eventful literary marriages.

Apr 5, 2023
Reintroducing Big Pharma

Pfizer’s chief corporate affairs officer writes a memoir that’s also a story of the Covid vaccine rollout and a how-to for public communications.

Mar 29, 2023
South Fork Poetry: ‘Working Papers’

Commemorating those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on March 25, 1911.

Mar 23, 2023
Where the Wild Things Were

In a new biography, Bill Janovitz shows that Leon Russell was way more than just a capable keyboardist and bandleader. 

Mar 23, 2023
Dance Man

Considering George Balanchine, the autocratic, contradictory Russian émigré who gave new life to American ballet.

Mar 16, 2023
End of a Paradise

In lyrical prose, a Pulitzer winner explores the wages of modernity by way of a small island off Maine.

Mar 9, 2023
South Fork Poetry: ‘Worm Moon’

When the Algonquin whispers to you.

Mar 9, 2023
An Aspirational Accoutrement

“Fit Nation” is a detailed Baedeker of the democratization of athletics, with spot-on observations regarding the sociology of fitness. 

Mar 1, 2023
Bright Lights, Sin City

Jeffrey Sussman’s “Sin City Gangsters” takes us on an impressive journey from the tawdry beginnings of Las Vegas through to its current almost Disney World iteration.

Feb 22, 2023
Israel and America: Guilt, Pride, Debate 

Eric Alterman is back with a typically contentious, hefty, diligently detailed exploration, this time focused on the long-running American debate over Israel.

Feb 15, 2023
A Respite From Cynicism

For connoisseurs of brevity, the 14 pieces in John McCaffrey’s “Automatically Hip,” some only two pages in length, will deliver a sweet take on the short form.

Feb 9, 2023
Book Markers: The Amagansett Edition

Paul Goldberger’s architecture criticism gets a revision, and Peter Eliott is out with a fantasy novel.

Feb 9, 2023
A Continuum of Violence

The killing of two Black brothers by a white police officer in Freeport in 1946 was a little-known but pivotal moment in a long and tragic history.

Feb 2, 2023
In a Language of His Own

Frederic Tuten’s short prose vignettes accompany his prints in pastels and ink, and the result is delightfully whimsical.

Jan 26, 2023
The Outsize Life of a Bon Vivant

Here is Peter Beard, wildlife photographer, artist, naturalist, author, blue blood, and ladies’ man, considered by someone who knew him well across some 30 years.

Jan 19, 2023
South Fork Poetry: ‘Safely Strapped’

One man’s life seen from a belted car seat.

Jan 19, 2023
Sarah Kidd Makes Her Way

Capt. William Kidd’s wife, Sarah, a shrewd money and property player in her own right, is hereby rescued from history’s dustbin.

Jan 11, 2023
Myths in Our Time 

A couple of professional historians cut through the agenda-driven amateurism that’s crippling civic discourse.

Jan 5, 2023
The 10 Best Books of 2022

The Star’s incredibly well-read man in letters bids an insightful farewell to the year that was.

Dec 29, 2022
Teddy and the Turning Tide

In the second volume of Neal Gabler’s monumental biography, Ted Kennedy’s progressive priorities run up against a resurgent American right.

Dec 22, 2022
Death and How to Face It

In this slim and lyrical novel, Max Little, an author with a fatal disease, ponders what’s ahead while dreading having to tell his wife.

Dec 15, 2022
Truman and Andy Talk It Out

This nonfiction play-turned-book amusingly showcases two artistic giants as if they were at a gossipy lunch.

Dec 8, 2022
South Fork Poetry: ‘He Said, She Said’

A poet and author of picture books contemplates dealing with anger.

Dec 1, 2022
Off the Rails

In A.M. Homes’s latest, “The Unfolding,” it’s the revenge of the rich, white Republicans against a backdrop of family discord.

Dec 1, 2022
Rock-and-Roll Missionary

Jann Wenner was in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (1967). Not to diminish the man's achievements as a magazine magnate. Here’s his story.

Nov 22, 2022
South Fork Poetry: ‘Beaver Moon’

From a series of poems on full moons and the Algonquins.

Nov 17, 2022
Scars of a Writing Life

“Death of a Salesman” made Arthur Miller, rich, famous, and admired. So how was he “defeated” by Marilyn Monroe?

Nov 17, 2022
‘Everything Is Copy’

A highly readable portrait of a writer and filmmaker whose life and work were intertwined.

Nov 10, 2022