Books & Ideas
Love thy neighbor, author James Carroll stressed as he opened the Summer Institute's annual speaker series on Thursday night. This message was part...
Robert Bernstein's memoir chronicles his legendary career in publishing — from office boy-in-waiting at Simon and Schuster to president of Random...
E.J. Dionne will talk about American conservatism and the Republican party on Thursday, July 14.
On Tuesday evening, weavers and woodworkers, hair stylists and musicians traveled from all corners of the Island to celebrate the launch of Jane...
In 1969, after an absence of some 30 years from the Vineyard, Dr. David Lowenthal (now 93 years old) revisited the Island.
A mysterious drowning in Oak Bluffs harbor sets the stage for Cynthia Riggs’s 13th novel, Bloodroot.
Jib Ellis’s newest collection of stories, Jib’s Hat, draws from a lifetime of experiences.
driver Sam Hill cannot seem to find peace on the Vineyard in the third book in Michael G. West’s eco-thriller trilogy, Burn: A Year-round Place to...
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History & Geography of Herbal Medicine, has been awarded the national Nautilus Book Award.
Chris Fischer’s cookbook, published last spring, was honored this week with a James Beard Award for American Cooking.
The Friends of the Edgartown Library announce the publication of a new book, The Edgartown Free Public Library 1891-2016.
The March installment of Tweed’s Reads reading group at West Tisbury library will take up the topic “the prison of group think.”
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Arts Briefs
Junot Diaz is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer. John Forte, formerly of the Fugees, is a Grammy-nominated musician and producer.
Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will speak on Sunday, July 24.
On Monday, July 25, Noam Chomsky will speak at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs at the screening of the documentary about his life, Requiem for the...
