Books & Ideas
Cecilia Kang is a reporter for the New York Times, covering the technology field where short and informative sentences are often the norm. Co-writing...
Elizabeth Kolbert won a Pulitzer Prize for her bestseller, The Sixth Extinction, and is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In her new book, Under a...
Sadeqa Johnson has always written stories about subjects she knows well, but the story of Yellow Wife called to her on a different level — one she...
Fiction readers can be glad that Deesha Philyaw’s oldest daughter had trouble napping.
Starting Thursday and running through Sunday, the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival 2021 Summer Series once again invites book lovers to unite to hear...
Two of the country’s most prominent black intellectuals joined forces on the stage of Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs Thursday afternoon, where an eager...
In Dr. Stephen Gardner's new book, Jabberwocky: Lessons in Love from a Boy Who Never Spoke, he tells the story of his son Graham's inspiring life.
History buffs, fiction fanatics and those itching to learn the secret history of church ladies will get more than their fill this August when the...
Kevin Parham's new novella brings back the M/V Islander, which was decommissioned in 2007, in a fictional tale about the beloved ferry.
Plans for the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival were put on temporary hold Tuesday, after Chilmark selectmen delayed approval of the biannual summer...
Island poets are invited to take part in the April 25 reading.
The 19th Hijacker, James Reston’s 19th book, follows a long list of both fiction and nonfiction titles that take as their subject matter the...
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Arts Briefs
Island poet KT Herr leads a free, weekly online poetry writing workshop Fridays beginning May 8.
West Tisbury poet laureate Spencer Thurlow leads another online free-write poetry class on Thursdays starting May 7.
Jennifer Smith Turner’s recent book Child Bride was named best fiction e-book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
