Books

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A reading celebrates Anne Porter’s poetry, and a talk hails Mary Rodgers’s bitingly funny memoir.

John Irving’s new doorstop of a novel vividly sums up a lifetime’s worth of themes, from family to sex to identity.

A new children’s book for Halloween sends a trio of dogs on a spooky adventure.

A plea for reform of our troubled prison system from a former executive editor of The Times.

It’s beach house or bust in Amy Fusselman’s comic debut novel.

In Children’s Book Land, Susan Verde is back addressing emotional well-being, while Billy Baldwin’s all about Halloween.

The Poetry Marathon returns to the Mulford Farm next Thursday, with Megan Chaskey among the readers.

A biography of the enigmatic queen of fashion that dishes plenty of industry dirt.

Eve Karlin’s thriller “Track 61” takes the framework of the Amagansett saboteur story and adds perception and perspective.

The poet will read from her work and discuss the artistic traditions of Springs on Sunday at Duck Creek.

Beyond the banging of pots and pans, what really happened when Covid hit New York?

Emily Dickinson was an accomplished pianist before she ever wrote poetry, and it influenced her writing in a number of ways.

Colleagues reflect on the author of "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," who died in East Hampton last month, as a writer, professor, and friend.

It’s that time of year again.

A New York writer, an empty nest, a dissolving marriage, a desirable visiting poet. What could go wrong?

Tina Brown authoritatively picks apart the royal life of nightmare scrutiny, hangers-on, powerlessness, and love gone awry.