Books & Ideas
In You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships, Deborah Tannen examines how female friends communicate and different...
When Alyssa Mastromonaco visited the Vineyard as acting chief of staff for President Obama, the beach had to wait. Work didn’t stop for the White...
Richard North Patterson was a political novelist, but he doesn’t write novels anymore. Non-fiction is too compelling. Fever Swamp, Mr. Patterson’s...
Julie Buntin was the kind of girl who would take out 25 library books at one time. Growing up in Petoskey, a town of 5,500 in northern Michigan,...
Chefs and eaters everywhere rejoiced when Sarah Leah Chase published New England Open-House Cookbook in 2015, after a hiatus of nearly two decades.
In his new book Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice, Dr. Willie Parker argues against allowing sexism, racism and religion to set the standard...
Ms. Anderson’s book White Rage, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, presents a brief but incisive look at...
Min Jin Lee's novel Pachinko is a nearly 500-page book that follows one family for seven tumultuous decades. Cultures clash and fates spiral. Wars...
Danzy Senna’s latest novel, New People, occupies the uneasy space between horror and humor. “I like that slight feeling of anxiety that those two...
Journalists will discuss the unprecedented challenges of reporting on the presidency as well as the latest news from Washington to open this year’s...
The Friends of West Tisbury Library annual book sale runs from July 28 to July 31.
What has Linda Fairstein gotten her lead character into now? You can find out in Deadfall, the 19th in Ms. Fairstein’s long-running series of crime...
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Arts Briefs
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.
The bookstores are staying up late on Saturday, July 30, in preparation for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is actually a script of the play...
