Books

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...

Friday, January 17: Matthew Goodman reads The City Game at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck.

Sophia Roberts and Emily Peck co-founded the Book Donation Project, an independent, student-run organization that donates new and gently used...

Uncle Skallywag is the latest collection of poems by Shivastan’s proprietor, tantric Buddhist/Hindu yogi, anthropologist, archivist, artist, photographer, publisher and...

“The fact that it’s been ten years since Michael Perkins and I started publishing our works through our own Bushwhack...

Sunday, Dec. 15: Pagels is best-known for research and publication involving a cache of over 50 ancient Greek texts discovered...

Saturday, Dec. 7: Cooper, the author of the much-loved, Newbery Medal-winning five-book series The Dark Is Rising, learned to love...

Sometimes described as a “National Geographic for Millennials,” Atlas Obscura was founded in 2009 by journalist Joshua Foer and documentary...

In a contrary motion that J. S. Bach likely would have appreciated, Like Falling through a Cloud moves from an...

Woodstock reading on Sunday, November 3: Many of the myths regarding Joplin read out like cautionary, puritanical sermons, luridly celebrating...

The book being discussed, Rising Out of Hatred: the Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, recounts how Derek Black, heir...

Tuesday, Oct. 22: Kimball left city life behind and, with her new husband from New Paltz, took on the immense...

“Ancient Baseball is a response, of sorts, to the way that Major League Baseball has ruined the game for me...

Saturday, Oct. 5: The 200th anniversary of the birth of American poet, journalist, essayist and humanist Walt Whitman is this...

Thursday, Oct. 10: Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, comes to Bard to explain how England’s Knepp Castle was returned to...

When the young Leader first went to Europe on a food tour, bread was not on his mind. Things changed...