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South Fork Poetry: ‘The Opening’

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

Jul 26, 2023
How Women Broke Old Molds in News 

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

Jul 20, 2023
Couric Interviews Ciuraru on Literary Marriages

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

Jul 13, 2023
Harlem Kerfuffle

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.

Jul 13, 2023
Book Markers: From Katie Couric to Sunny Hostin

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

Jul 6, 2023
From the Master’s Mouth

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.

Jul 6, 2023
Starting Over

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

Jun 29, 2023
A Natural Music

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

Jun 22, 2023
Coming of Age in the ’80s

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

Jun 14, 2023
William Finnegan and Brooke Kroeger in Q&As

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.

Jun 8, 2023
Wisecracks and Cold Cases

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

Jun 8, 2023
When Power Is All 

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

Jun 1, 2023
Biden: Less Credit Than Deserved?

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

May 25, 2023
The Queen of Garden Design

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

May 17, 2023
High Life and Low

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

May 10, 2023
South Fork Poetry: ‘Full Flower Moon’

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

May 3, 2023
Too Talented to Ignore

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

May 3, 2023
Wrangling a New Reality

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

Apr 27, 2023
A Sunday With Grace Schulman

“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.

Apr 19, 2023
Lab Lessons

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

Apr 19, 2023
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