Books & Ideas
Edgartown summer resident James B. Conroy is one of two recipients of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
On Dec. 27, the father and son team of Brocks Callen (they share the same name) headed out to sea.
David R. Foster’s new book, A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard, weaves dynamic tales of geology, ecology, history...
As is my habit each year, I’ve collected a group of maritime-themed books for land locked or winter bound mariners who might enjoy reading over the...
Emma Young’s precisely detailed poetry is born from broad feelings. Her poems come from the specific softness of summer dusk, from the heartbreaking...
Sandy Pimentel was born into a family of immigrants, Italian and Scottish, and generosity is a theme that runs through her life and memoir. It also...
In his newest book, In the Country of the Blind, essayist and octogenarian Edward Hoagland turns to fiction.
Ward Just, as the old newspaper saying goes, has ink in his veins. In his new novel, The Eastern Shore, he turns his attention and his memory to the...
On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Speakeasy Series presents an evening with Peter D. Kramer to benefit the West Tisbury Library Foundation.
Philip Weinstein begins his series of lecture on William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! on Wednesday, Nov. 2.
On Wednesday, Oct. 26 the Vineyard Haven library will hold a public reading of It Can’t Happen Here, based on the novel written by Sinclair Lewis.
Holly Hodder Eger's debut novel, Split Rock, follows a stay-at-home mom who moves to the Vineyard for the summer.
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Arts Briefs
The Friends of West Tisbury Library annual book sale runs from July 28 to July 31.
Island libraries will kick off this year’s summer reading program with a free event on Saturday, July 1 at 11 a.m. at the Agricultural Hall in West...
The Summer Institute Speaker Series at the Hebrew Center begins this Thursday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m.
