Books & Ideas
our room sidles / the Burren in Ireland’s West / crenelated lap of white / limestone gleams open / to the night’s full moon.
Richard Sisson Tripp and his wife Carol are regulars at the Vineyard artisans fair, weaving sheep’s wool from their farm in Lakeville into blankets...
The two young main characters in Nicole Galland’s boisterously winning new novel Boy are each at a kind of personal crossroads.
For more than 15 years, from the 1960s into the 1980s, Broadway and Hollywood costume designer Patricia Zipprodt was the owner of the 19th-century...
A child’s love / The truest of truth / Like pollen to flowers / Little bodies blossom / Where love blooms / Innocent and pure / Loving thy neighbor...
The Martha's Vineyard Book Festival opens on August 1 with a talk from Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and Atlantic staff...
Julia Spiro’s third novel, Such a Good Mom, opens on deceptively conventional grounds.
Following his National Book Award win in the fall, seasonal Vineyarder Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize this week for his novel James.
The visual music / of daffodil and forsythia / sends out vibrations of / early spring
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster begins with a phone call. So did Paul Karasik’s adaptation of the series.
Richard Michelson’s latest children’s book, Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, tells the story of how Passover...
Geraldine Brooks’ new memoir, Memorial Days, grew out of a tragedy and its aftermath.
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Arts Briefs
The Vineyard’s new poet laureate Claudia Taylor will give a reading at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum on Friday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m.
The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center kick-offs their annual Summer Institute on July 11 with a talkfrom Harvard University professor Karim R. Lakhani.
I’m out for a walk along the bluffs overlooking Vineyard Sound / To shake off the grip of premonition, of ominous threat.
