Tom Beer

If you’re not immersed in a book you can’t put down, you’re not doing summer right.

Turn of the Corkscrew, the innovative bookstore and wine bar in Rockville Centre, will pour its last glass of Chardonnay on June 15. Owners Carol Hoenig and Peggy Ziernan announced the closure on the

THE BURIED: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution, by Peter Hessler. In 2011, Hessler, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, moved with his family to Cairo, just as the Arab Spring was unfold

REVOLUTIONARIES, by Joshua Furst. It wasn’t easy being the child of a Sixties activist. Just ask Sam Anderson, the protagonist of Nathan Hill’s brilliant “The Nix,” or Fred (short for “Freedom”) Snyde

THE DEPARTMENT OF SENSITIVE CRIMES, by Alexander McCall Smith. Depend on the author of the “No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” and “44 Scotland Street” novels to make even a Nordic Noir mystery delightful

Howard Stern is poised to hit the bestseller lists again. More than 20 years after the publication of “Private Parts” and “Miss America,” the radio shock jock has written another book. Simon & Schuste

Here are seven recently published works of nonfiction and biography that illuminate the African-American experience.

“Deer Reeder: First may I say, sorry for any werds I spel rong,” begins the new story by George Saunders, published as a diminutive stand-

Anybody have a New Year’s resolution to read more in 2019?

BING CROSBY: SWINGING ON A STAR — The War Years, 1940-1946, by Gary Giddins. In 2001, the first volume of this Bing Crosby biography established “Der Bingle” as a groundbreaking artist of recording an

Historical fiction is a guilty pleasure for many readers. There’s so much ham-handed stuff out there that when an artfully written historical novel comes along — Julie Orringer’s “The Invisible Bridge

Everyone knows Steve Jobs could be mercurial, prickly and vindictive. The co-founder of Apple Inc. and chairman of Pixar Animation Studios, who died of cancer in 2011, has been the subject of a bestse

THE PRISON LETTERS OF NELSON MANDELA, edited by Sahm Venter. The former South African President and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize would have been 100 on Wednesday, July 18. (He died in 2013.) From 1

Today, Anthony Bourdain may be better known for his television shows, “No Reservations” and “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” but the chef, whose death at age 61 was announced June 8, first made his

Esports News UK attended the 2018 EU Masters grand finals earlier this month. Aside from being a League of Legends spectacle, it was also the very first

The saga of Middle-earth continues. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Wednesday that it will publish “The Fall of Gondolin,” an unpublished story by J.R.R. Tolkien, on Aug. 30. The book will sell fo

What’s more beloved than a picture book about a pet bunny?A picture book about a gay bunny, apparently.The battle of the bunny books — now duking it out on the Amazon bestseller lists — begins with “M

High rollers needn’t head to Las Vegas — or even Atlantic City — to get a gaming fix anymore.Resorts World Casino, which operates the casino near Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, is set to open a new cas

Peter Mayle, author of the bestseller “A Year in Provence” and other books, died Thursday at the age of 78. According to a statement released by his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Mayle died at a hospita

What is this elusive thing, improvement, which gives Joan Silber’s new novel its title? For the many characters in these pages — variously interconnected by blood, love, money and fate — the word has