Books & Ideas

Talking Civil Rights, From Selma to Ferguson

Alex Floyd

In celebration of the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, members of the Martha’s Vineyard community gathered last week for an event organized by...

10:35 am, August 13, 2015
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Where's Coop? It's Mike's Time to Shine in Linda Fairstein's Latest Novel

Elizabeth Bennett

Devil’s Bridge is the 17th Alex Cooper thriller by Linda Fairstein. The author explores, with great depth, levels of psychology that help even...

11:02 pm, August 12, 2015
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Nicole Galland Is Barking Up the Right Tree in Love and Art

Louisa McCullough

Nicole Galland adores her dog Leuco, and she said it was fun to write a book in which she could describe a character’s relationship with her dog. In...

10:50 pm, August 12, 2015
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Unraveling the Conversation on Race

Alex Elvin

Hundreds of people filled the Chilmark Community Center on Friday to hear award-winning journalists Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michele Norris discuss Mr....

6:24 am, August 4, 2015
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Read All About It: Sixth Annual Book Festival Is Big Draw for Authors and Readers

Alex Floyd

The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival celebrated its return to the Island for the sixth time this weekend. The festival featured a wide range of...

12:07 pm, August 3, 2015
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In Era of Texting and Email, Considering the Unedited, Face-to-Face Life

Alex Elvin

Sherry Turkle, a sociologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, warned more than 200 people gathered at the Hebrew center last week about “a...

9:06 pm, August 2, 2015
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A Communion of Dictators Binds Fascism and the Catholic Church

Alex Floyd

Benito Mussolini is long gone, but the institution that helped bring him and keep him in power may not be, according to a new Pulitzer Prize winning...

6:19 pm, July 30, 2015
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Authors and Panels That Inform and Provoke Define Book Festival

Alex Elvin

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates headlines a sold-out public discussion Friday that explores the idea of a post-racial America. The discussion kicks off the...

6:17 pm, July 30, 2015
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Making Fast Dinners Without a Fuss; It's the Holy Grail for Every Family

Remy Tumin

What’s for dinner? That’s the question the four Pollan family women kept finding themselves asking one another. The Pollan Family Table, written by...

6:07 pm, July 30, 2015
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By Digging Up the Whole Story, Writer Honors the Death of His Roommate

Alex Elvin

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, released last year to wide acclaim, is Mr. Hobbs’s memorial to his Yale roommate Robert Peace's life,...

5:55 pm, July 30, 2015
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To Make History a Page Turner, Stay Curious

Louisa McCullough

Erik Larson’s advice to those who want to write? “Work as a cop on the side,” he told the Gazette in a recent interview. “Immersing yourself in life...

5:49 pm, July 30, 2015
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A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma With No Conclusion; Art Heist Still Mystifies

Alex Floyd

Stephen Kurkjian’s new book has the characters, intrigue and pace of a mystery novel. All it lacks is the culprit. That’s because his subject matter...