Marking its centennial, the Adirondack Mountain Club’s recently published “Peaks and Ponds: Adirondack Day Hikes,” by Bobby Clark and Cat Hadlow is an intelligent and welcome resource for both the expert and novice hiker. The Adirondack Mountain Club, which now has 30,000 members and 27 ...

Mahogany Browne’s new novel, “Vinyl Moon,” came out in January through Crown Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Browne—a poet, activist, and teacher— is based in Brooklyn but visits the North Country frequently thanks to the Adirondack Center for Writing, on whose advisory ...

I remember reading an article in The New Yorker several years ago about a man on the Lower Hudson River paddling south toward Florida. Some time later, the subject’s abandoned canoe was found overturned off the coast of North Carolina. Among effects found inside the craft was contact ...

“Her Perfect Secret,” T.J. Brearton’s latest stand-alone psychological thriller, is a power-packed critique of the human condition and the institutions we have set into place to guide us. The narrative preys on our instincts to place trust in authority— doctors, psychologists, law ...

Rich Frost’s newest book, “Rich in History: A Champlain Valley Reader,” should be read with a pen in hand. There are so many interesting, historic places to visit that readers will need to make a list (I suggest a bucket list!) to keep track of them all. According to the author, the book ...

The short story collections of Saranac Lake authors Tyler Barton and Caperton Tissot are very different, and both delightful. Tyler Barton’s “Eternal Night at the Nature Museum” is filled with wildly imaginative plots and characters. “Once Nothing, Twice Shatter,” introduces a ...