Books

Eileen Myles, whose poems race headlong down the page, is nothing if not consistent, and prolific. Myles’s latest collection is “a Working Life.”

Public spaces needn’t be immutable, privatized, or useless. They can be claimed for the community good. Professor Setha Low takes a fresh look.

Colson Whitehead reads from his new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” Thursday night in Sag Harbor, while Bill Boggs is in East Hampton Saturday with “Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns.”

Authors Night, Saturday, Aug. 12, Herrick Park, East Hampton. Be there.

Paul McCartney’s “1964: Eyes of the Storm” collects more than 200 photographs he took with a Pentax camera late in 1963 and early in 1964.

Here is the Jackie Bouvier Kennedy you may not know — photog, columnist, gal about town.

A Philip Schultz poem in tribute to the East Hampton artists Connie Fox and William King.

Women’s increasing numbers in and influence over American journalism is explored in “Undaunted” by Brooke Kroeger, a veteran correspondent and professor.

Carmela Ciuraru will talk to Katie Couric about “Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages” at Guild Hall on Monday night.

For his new one, Colson Whitehead returns to Harlem, this time in the 1970s, and Ray Carney, who’s busier than ever with his furniture store and his stolen goods.

Katie Couric is first up at the revived Fridays at Five, while Sunny Hostin visits the East Hampton Library with her new novel.

Laurie Anderson has compiled Lou Reed’s notes into a book showing how tai chi saved the rocker’s life and came to define his life.

The dissolution of a writer’s marriage, one essay at a time.

The poet and farmer Scott Chaskey returns with fresh takes on birds and words, seeds and trees.

From tattoos to dead-end jobs, here is a novel for anyone who had no idea what came next in their youth.

It’s William Finnegan in Montauk on his “Barbarian Days” surfing life, and Brooke Kroeger in East Hampton on the history of women in journalism.

Meet Corie Geller, onetime F.B.I. agent, and her retired police detective dad, both thrilled to be back on the case.

The late Nancy Dougherty’s examination of Nazi evil through Reinhard Heydrich, “the puppet master of the Third Reich.”

Revealing recollections and surprising revelations about the Biden administration, many relevant to Election 2024.

The life of Bunny Mellon, a visionary of taste and style who knew immense privilege and cataclysmic loss.

Emma Cline’s new novel chronicles the adventures of an escort, thief, and pill addict over six days in the Hamptons.

The latest in a series of poems about moons and the Algonquin tribe.

Exploring the roots of Mel Brooks’s comedic greatness, from the Lower East Side to the Borscht Belt.

The late Lucas Matthiessen’s memoir recounts losing his vision, a descent into drinking, and a new life in recovery.

“Spend your Sunday immersed in the words of American poet Grace Schulman,” says The Church in Sag Harbor, where she’ll be appearing at 2 p.m. But first, here’s one of her poems.

A look back at a public firestorm and its lingering aftereffects in the wake of a radioactive spill at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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

Spring surges and the April moon hovers.

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

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.