Millie Mosbach got out in time, in Ellen Feldman’s new World War II-era novel, so why would she return to the crime-ridden nightmare that was postwar Berlin?

A man and his dog . . .

Ranking states in terms of corruption is difficult, but if it were possible New York certainly could claim a top position.

The death of Devesh Samtani, an 18-year-old summer visitor who had been struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Amagansett at night last month, was an avoidable tragedy.

This is one of those years when nature has looked with favor on the East End, providing us with a beach plum harvest for the ages.

A three-way conversation that I had by chance over the weekend inadvertently got to the root of something that underlies a lot of conflict here — resistance to change.

Pauline Nathlie Mohan, an East Hampton native and a homemaker, died of cancer on Friday at home in Torrington, Conn. She was 72 and had been ill for eight months.

Patricia Taylor Siskind, a part-time resident of Meadow Way in East Hampton Village since 1967, died on Friday in New York City. The cause was cancer. Ms. Siskind, who had been ill for around six months, was 87. 

In Netflix’s “The Chair,” one of the backdrops is declining enrollment at a small liberal arts college, and an English department, if not an entire discipline, in existential crisis.

“I almost got court-martialed for wearing frayed cutoff shorts like that,” I said to Ed Hollander in the early going of the recent Artists-Writers Softball Game.

After a decade of renewed participation in Jewish life, I see the new year celebration not as a misplaced jolt of spirituality but as an integral part of the religious calendar, a culminating event and a fresh beginning.

New real estate transfers.

The Big Duck is a nonagenarian. 

Joan Butler of Brooklyn and Tenafly, N.J., who had a long career in finance administration, died on Aug. 30 surrounded by family at the home of a daughter in Carmel, N.Y. A lifelong summer visitor to Amagansett and East Hampton, she had been ill for a year with cancer. She was 67.

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The Shinnecock Indian Nation's annual powwow is closed to the public for the second year in a row because of Covid-19.

There are still a few spots open for Wednesday's drop-painting workshop at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, which will be led by Joyce Raimondo, the founding director of Imagine That! Art Education.

Netflix's "Monster," which was released this year, is one of the film projects Edward Tyler Nahem has contributed to in addition to theatrical productions and what he calls his "day job," heading up his own New York City gallery.

Only two weeks are left to see the seascape paintings and etchings at the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio.

Based on true events, "Hitler's Tasters" explores how four young women navigate sexuality, friendship, patriotism, and survival against the backdrop of war.