Books

Exploring the roots of Mel Brooks’s comedic greatness, from the Lower East Side to the Borscht Belt.

The late Lucas Matthiessen’s memoir recounts losing his vision, a descent into drinking, and a new life in recovery.

“Spend your Sunday immersed in the words of American poet Grace Schulman,” says The Church in Sag Harbor, where she’ll be appearing at 2 p.m. But first, here’s one of her poems.

A look back at a public firestorm and its lingering aftereffects in the wake of a radioactive spill at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

For the Paul McCartney superfan, here’s a mammoth tome documenting seemingly every waking moment of his life from 1969 to 1973. 

Behold codependency, substance abuse, lovelessness, lack of sexual compatibility, grievous inequity, and unsettling disrespect as Carmela Ciuraru chronicles five eventful literary marriages.

Spring surges and the April moon hovers.

Pfizer’s chief corporate affairs officer writes a memoir that’s also a story of the Covid vaccine rollout and a how-to for public communications.

Commemorating those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on March 25, 1911.

In a new biography, Bill Janovitz shows that Leon Russell was way more than just a capable keyboardist and bandleader. 

Considering George Balanchine, the autocratic, contradictory Russian émigré who gave new life to American ballet.

In lyrical prose, a Pulitzer winner explores the wages of modernity by way of a small island off Maine.