Books & Ideas
On Friday, the Lagoon Pond Floating Gallery became a venue for conversation between two groundbreaking women scientists — one African American and...
On beach chairs and blankets scattered across the lawn at Featherstone Center for the Arts, a crowd of about 200 gathered last week to learn about...
Robin Wall Kimmerer and Ursula Goodenough will be in conversation at Featherstone Center of the Arts on August 31 at 4 p.m. for an event called...
The Martha's Vineyard Book Festival featured three days of conversations and interviews with 27 authors across many genres. It began with a...
The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival kicked off Friday evening at the Chilmark Community Center with a conversation between comedian and late night...
Rebecca Makkai, whose breakout novel The Great Believers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, returned with another novel early this year that aims to...
When journalist and author Andrew Meier set out to write a history of the Morgenthau family, he knew it would be no small undertaking.
Joan Biskupic’s Nine Black Robes presents a portrait of a United States Supreme Court ideologically divided and deeply affected by former President...
When Nicole Chung began writing her book A Living Remedy: A Memoir, she did not imagine that her life — and her book — would completely transform.
Tracy Kidder didn’t set out to write a book about rural medicine, tuberculosis and AIDS in Haiti. Or education in America.
When Elizabeth Alexander sat down to write her latest book, she drew upon a lifetime of material from her extensive career as a scholar, author and...
Richard North Patterson’s new novel, Trial, puts some of America’s most urgent issues concerning race and voting rights on the stand.
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Arts Briefs
On Saturday, August 5, The Trustees of Reservations and the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival will host a bird walk led by Christian Cooper at Long...
The board of the Friends of the West Tisbury Free Public Library has announced information about its 63rd annual used book sale.
On Saturday, June 24, the West Tisbury Public Library will hold a book launch for Borders to Bridges: Arts-Based Curriculum for Social Justice.
