Books

This choice of book is in many ways perfect for the time and circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Last weekend, the 115 Partition Street storefront in Saugerties that used to house Lucky Chocolates and its accompanying café –...

Mention Carole and Steve Ford to Paltzonians of a certain vintage – those who attended the Campus School, the New...

“Small Happenings,” a collection of aphorisms, thoughts, observations, witty thoughts, and short poems all presented as a guide of sorts...

Sometimes, the most interesting parts of a town can be found in slightly out-of-the-way corners the locals know best. It’s...

It should perhaps not surprise us that some of the most profoundly moving literary meditations on nature are inspired not...

The theme was inspired by memories of stories read aloud in childhood, with the participating artists translating that experience into...

The vivid world of Sigrid Heath’s Far Cry sets up shop in your head and doesn’t want to disperse when...

Think you’re sick and tired of being cooped up waiting for the pandemic to be over? Isolation can be even...

Rosendalians and visitors to the town mostly know Mark Morganstern as the music-booking half of the husband-and-wife team who has...

Brent Robison and Tom Newton follow their own muses, along with their individual recognition that something inside each man dictates...

"I hope I'm wrong," Martha Frankel said about her decision to cancel the Woodstock Bookfest. "I hope in two weeks...

Best-known for directing such successes as Addams Family Values, Get Shorty and the first three Men in Black movies, Sonnenfeld’s...

Saturday, Feb. 29: Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth and art by Améziane, is...

Reviewed: David Levine’s The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years: A Mostly Chronological and Occasionally Personal History; Alan Via’s...

Back in December, 1905, when Kingston still got its water from the Zena reservoirs and Cooper Lake was twinkling in...

Gaiman will soon be back, resuming his teaching responsibilities at Bard, and the Conversations are back on. Jemisin’s work is...

Monday, Feb. 3: In Yellow Earth, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in...

Sunday, Jan. 26: “My vision was: What if Aragorn had been a woman? What if a realm awaited the return...

Wednesday, Jan. 22: In his new book Live Sustainably Now: A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life, Karl Coplan chronicles...