Closing up our summer retreat was when I first experienced what my grandmother called “the pain of a heavy heart.”

Donations of gently used baby gear, including equipment, toys, and clothing, are now being accepted at the Children's Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton for an upcoming swap-n-shop event.

The 30 stories in Francis Levy’s “The Kafka Studies Department” add a lightly absurdist take on human psychology to the landscape of literary brevity.