Books

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.

From “New York,” a poetry collection by Lucas Hunt due out from Thane & Prose on May 2.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s new lecture series brings historians and authors of books with a historical focus for talks, Q&A sessions, and the inevitable wine and cheese.

Truman Capote pulled back the curtain on lives that were only outwardly glamorous, and in some ways ended an era.

Alafair Burke’s latest comes with a truckload of twists, turns, and entanglements — plus an East Hampton setting.

New work based hard experience from a contributor of long standing.

Mark Prins’s debut novel, “The Latinist,” is an academic thriller with interpersonal toxicity at full boil.

Bill Bratton’s memoir provides an excellent recap of a sensible top cop’s extraordinary record of crime reduction.

In “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace,” John Avlon’s argument is that Lincoln’s intentions following the Civil War demonstrate the true path to peacemaking after armed conflict.

Meet the Authors Night, a new monthly series from the Springs Historical Society and the Springs Library, brings Randye Lordon, known for her Sydney Sloane mysteries, to Ashawagh Hall on March 16 at 6 p.m.

Mel Brooks delivers what his title promises, exclamation point and all — an unedited account of a life that must have been fun to live, but can be a chore to read about.

In “Going There,” her memoir, Katie Couric spares no one, least of all herself, in coming clean on a 40-year career in on-air news reporting. 

The Shelter Island Library is offering a chance for poets to win some recognition and $1,000.

A new one from our man in Springs.

All the ethical quandaries of a Henry James novel transposed to Gardiner’s Island? Read on.

Let’s talk politics.

In “Too Famous,” Michael Wolff’s compendium and rogues’ gallery, is it the sleaze of his subjects or his smug knowingness that’s grating?

Based on a “nightmare scenario” that woke Hillary Clinton up in the middle of the night when she was secretary of state, “State of Terror” tells an “all too timely” story.

A stream-of-consciousness tribute from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

What we have here is Carl Bernstein’s sincere, often heartwarming love letter about his earliest years in the print-era journalism that seduced him at age 16.

Nancy Goldstone’s “In the Shadow of the Empress” focuses on four extraordinary Habsburg women: Maria Theresa and three of her daughters, one of them Marie Antoinette, during one of the most unstable periods in European history.

How did Harold Rosenberg, a gawky nerd in his youth, a self-described outsider, become one of the 20th century’s most essential voices on American art?

The pianist Peter Duchin’s memoir mixes anecdotes of a life making music in high society with accounts of a stroke and hospitalization with Covid.

Reconsidering Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” as a treatise on P.T.S.D.

The author of “Lit Life” looks back at the highlights of the year that was in literature.

A National Book Award-winning novelist on her art and craft — and East Hampton’s Main Street, too.

Impressive selections of used, rare, and collectible books can be found in local shops like Black Cat Books on Shelter Island, Sag Harbor Books and Southampton Books, and Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, and some of these are also tapping the internet to redirect the world’s flow of used books from extinction (and landfills) to readers who truly care for and appreciate them.