Alice McDermott’s new novel gives us remarkably realistic characters while fleshing out the zeitgeist of the 1960s as experienced by American women expats in Vietnam.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

When Monday’s county Class AA high school boys soccer semifinal was over, and when it had sunk in that Huntington, the tournament’s third seed, had defeated second-seeded East Hampton 3-1 in a penalty kick shootout that followed almost two hours of riveting play, not only did Bonac’s players tear up, but so did their coach, Don McGovern.

“Shot in the Arm,” a new film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, looks at the fear, uncertainly, and politicization surrounding vaccinations and takes dead aim at the unproven arguments of the anti-vaxxers.

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials as an allegory targeting McCarthyism, is next up in Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series with two and a half weeks of public performances and daytime shows for school groups.

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky — but this isn't the Addams family we're talking about. They're the Social Skellies, a front-yard installation on Route 114 in East Hampton that started as a Halloween display in 2020 but has since become a platform for social commentary and parodies of pop-culture phenomena.

Hundreds of Montaukers and friends from nearby communities came together Monday afternoon — with friends calling friends calling friends, until the gazebo was nearly surrounded — to stand up against antisemitism, which reared its ugly head at dawn that day when swastikas and other hateful graffiti were discovered spray-painted in several places in the hamlet.