Books

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.

Jeffrey Sussman weaves together tales of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, how they put their lives on the line to oppose a maniacal regime.

Angela Merkel’s high-mindedness and manifold good deeds are deftly, sympathetically described in Kati Marton’s new biography.

The Pushcart “Best of the Small Presses” anthology is back, offering a wide spectrum of voices and contributions that survey abuses specific to our moment.