Books

A genealogy test answers nagging questions of identity and prompts a deeper search.

Try as I might in researching “The Lost Boys of Montauk,” the youngest of the foursome, Scott Clarke, remained an enigma. Until now.

A Pulitzer winner describes how he reached other writerly spirits, those of note and those just learning to express themselves.

This historical Y.A. novel follows a forced evacuation from Nova Scotia, and a teenage girl who lands in colonial East Hampton.

The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

This assemblage of lyric sheets, recollections, photographs, handwritten notes, and drawings is nothing if not unconventional.

Philip Schultz and Jill Bialosky, poet turned memoirist and his editor, will have a meeting of the minds Friday in Sag Harbor.

Zachary Lazar’s new novel is a meditation on life in Trump’s America — and how to escape it.

In Iris Smyles’s new story collection, the pithy brilliance pours forth like water from a sculptural fountain.

Isaac Babel’s accounts of the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 are so eerily reminiscent of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that reading Babel now one tries not to shudder at the cyclical madness of history. 

This is the autobiography of a career more than a man, and an extended essay on a philosophy of architecture.

Writing a biography of the couture-sporting, Slavic companion of “the most toxic leader in American history”? Sounds like trouble.

In the mind’s eye of a poet.

A novelist’s skillful dive into the complexities of the legendary Frick family of art collectors.

From “New York,” a poetry collection by Lucas Hunt due out from Thane & Prose on May 2.

Martha Wainwright on the anxieties and influences of growing up in a musical dynasty.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s new lecture series brings historians and authors of books with a historical focus for talks, Q&A sessions, and the inevitable wine and cheese.

Truman Capote pulled back the curtain on lives that were only outwardly glamorous, and in some ways ended an era.

New work based hard experience from a contributor of long standing.

Alafair Burke’s latest comes with a truckload of twists, turns, and entanglements — plus an East Hampton setting.

Mark Prins’s debut novel, “The Latinist,” is an academic thriller with interpersonal toxicity at full boil.

Bill Bratton’s memoir provides an excellent recap of a sensible top cop’s extraordinary record of crime reduction.

In “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace,” John Avlon’s argument is that Lincoln’s intentions following the Civil War demonstrate the true path to peacemaking after armed conflict.

Meet the Authors Night, a new monthly series from the Springs Historical Society and the Springs Library, brings Randye Lordon, known for her Sydney Sloane mysteries, to Ashawagh Hall on March 16 at 6 p.m.

Mel Brooks delivers what his title promises, exclamation point and all — an unedited account of a life that must have been fun to live, but can be a chore to read about.

In “Going There,” her memoir, Katie Couric spares no one, least of all herself, in coming clean on a 40-year career in on-air news reporting. 

All the ethical quandaries of a Henry James novel transposed to Gardiner’s Island? Read on.

A new one from our man in Springs.

The Shelter Island Library is offering a chance for poets to win some recognition and $1,000.

In “Too Famous,” Michael Wolff’s compendium and rogues’ gallery, is it the sleaze of his subjects or his smug knowingness that’s grating?