Books

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.

In this winning debut, a father drops the ball with his bequeathal, and his daughter searches for answers.

Dozens of writers were on hand Saturday night for the East Hampton Library’s annual Authors Night, a celebration of all things literary. 

A psychological tale of revenge that doesn’t stint on biting social critique.

This year, 100 writers will be under a tent in Herrick Park for the East Hampton Library benefit.

When a self-improvement movement becomes something sinister.

In “As It Turns Out,” Alice Sedgwick Wohl continues the complicated story of her sister, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s “superstar.”

Ken Auletta is nothing if not scrupulous in telling the heinous tale of the fall of Harvey Weinstein.

A snarky, often ribald, always revealing memoir from Broadway royalty.

A poet takes exception to the notion that Armageddon will be sponsored.

During Prohibition “liquor was flowing like a river” from the East End to New York City.

It’s Gary Ginsberg at The Church in Sag Harbor Saturday and Kati Marton at Fridays at Five in Bridgehampton tomorrow.

The lives of artists, complicated women, heartbreak, and the consolation of great art are subjects in Frederic Tuten’s “The Bar at Twilight.”

A genealogy test answers nagging questions of identity and prompts a deeper search.

A tale of two teens, a grudge, and a gun reveals a way to address violence in our cities.

Try as I might in researching “The Lost Boys of Montauk,” the youngest of the foursome, Scott Clarke, remained an enigma. Until now.

A Pulitzer winner describes how he reached other writerly spirits, those of note and those just learning to express themselves.

This historical Y.A. novel follows a forced evacuation from Nova Scotia, and a teenage girl who lands in colonial East Hampton.

The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

Philip Schultz and Jill Bialosky, poet turned memoirist and his editor, will have a meeting of the minds Friday in Sag Harbor.

This assemblage of lyric sheets, recollections, photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings is nothing if not unconventional.

Zachary Lazar’s new novel is a meditation on life in Trump’s America — and how to escape it.

In Iris Smyles’s new story collection, the pithy brilliance pours forth like water from a sculptural fountain.

This is the autobiography of a career more than a man, and an extended essay on a philosophy of architecture.

Isaac Babel’s accounts of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 are so eerily reminiscent of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that reading Babel now one tries not to shudder at the cyclical madness of history. 

Writing a biography of the couture-sporting, Slavic companion of “the most toxic leader in American history”? Sounds like trouble.

A novelist’s skillful dive into the complexities of the legendary Frick family of art collectors.

In the mind’s eye of a poet.

Martha Wainwright on the anxieties and influences of growing up in a musical dynasty.