Story Time

Some books require research, the writer visiting archives and interviewing all manner of people.

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Book Festival Brings the Page to Life

The biennial Martha's Vineyard Book Festival takes place August 5 and 6 on the Chilmark Community Center grounds, with an opening event on August 4 hosted by comedian Seth Meyers and journalist Kara Swisher.

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Following the Muse, in Words and in Life

After seven decades as a published poet, literary wife and mother, international human rights activist and famed Vineyard hostess, Rose Styron has a wealth of stories to tell.

Setting them down in writing, however, had never appealed to her.

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Vineyard Folk Celebrates Island Artists

When Tamara Weiss and Amanda Benchley set out to write a book about Vineyard artists, they were determined to not just capture the beauty of the Island and its people.

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Finding Home from a Father's Perspective

Crafted from 10 years of essays written for the Gazette, at its heart Bill Eville's new book is a memoir about fatherhood.

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Book Festival Keeps the Stories Going

For four days in two locations, 22 of the country’s leading authors and thinkers gathered for the biennial Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival.

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Top Writers Give Book Festival Audience a Sobering Account of Journalism Today

A book festival audience turned out Friday evening for a panel discussion on the Martha’s Vineyard Museum lawn with three of the country’s leading journalists.

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Division Rules But Addition Makes More Sense

After nearly 20 years working in economic policy, Heather McGhee realized she needed a different approach to understand the fault lines of American division.

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Making a Case for Gene Editing as the Story of Our Future

Walter Isaacson suggests that if one is searching for a summer read, a nail-biting mystery perhaps, his latest biography on the woman behind gene editing is the way to go.

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Embedding With Extremists Does Not Lead to Empathy

When Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, attended the “DeploraBall” on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2016, he didn’t expect there to be good company.

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