Books & Ideas
Christopher Shaw Myers, an author who spent most of his life working in tech, has written a book about his uncle, Robert Shaw, who played the salt...
In conversation with author Alexandra Styron, Belle Burden spoke in front of a packed audience at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort about the genesis of...
Naomi Shihab Nye returns to Featherstone for a poetry reading on June 3.
The Martha’s Vineyard Author Series lineup this year includes 11 authors, spanning themes of free speech, racial justice and culture.
The first line of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is, “Who’s there?” Swarthmore professor emeritus, author and Aquinnah resident Phil Weinstein will ask...
The story of Belle Burden's divorce — and Ms. Burden’s subsequent efforts to reshape her life — became her best-selling memoir Strangers: A Memoir of...
Readers gathered at the Sweet Life Cafe Saturday night for a dinner with Elizabeth Rush, author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends...
I need to winter
I don’t love winter
But I love wintering
I can store it for later
I can be more of an artist in my journal with my dog and...
In Marianne Lovink Goldsmith's new memoir, the author and psychoanalyst examines her childhood, in particular her time in a Japanese prison camp, to...
At the beginning of Bird Jones and Marshall Highet’s new novel The Washashore, 16-year-old Emily Cartwright is arriving on the shores of 1929 Martha’...
The Michigan Library Foundation has named the debut book from a Vineyard author one of Michigan’s 20 Notable Books of 2026.
Three cookbooks by Martha’s Vineyard authors won awards from The Readable Feast, an annual culinary book award that recognizes the best in cookbooks...
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Naomi Shihab Nye returns to Featherstone for a poetry reading on June 3.
I need to winter I don’t love winter But I love wintering I can store it for later I can be more of an artist in my journal with my dog and...
The Michigan Library Foundation has named the debut book from a Vineyard author one of Michigan’s 20 Notable Books of 2026.
