Books & Ideas
The Martha's Vineyard Book Festival featured three days of conversations and interviews with 27 authors across many genres. It began with a...
The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival kicked off Friday evening at the Chilmark Community Center with a conversation between comedian and late night...
Rebecca Makkai, whose breakout novel The Great Believers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, returned with another novel early this year that aims to...
When journalist and author Andrew Meier set out to write a history of the Morgenthau family, he knew it would be no small undertaking.
Joan Biskupic’s Nine Black Robes presents a portrait of a United States Supreme Court ideologically divided and deeply affected by former President...
When Nicole Chung began writing her book A Living Remedy: A Memoir, she did not imagine that her life — and her book — would completely transform.
Tracy Kidder didn’t set out to write a book about rural medicine, tuberculosis and AIDS in Haiti. Or education in America.
When Elizabeth Alexander sat down to write her latest book, she drew upon a lifetime of material from her extensive career as a scholar, author and...
Richard North Patterson’s new novel, Trial, puts some of America’s most urgent issues concerning race and voting rights on the stand.
For Jeannette Walls, truth is at the heart of writing, from her journalism and wildly-successful debut memoir to her most recent novel, Hang the Moon...
Every spring, avian enthusiast Christian Cooper spends his early mornings searching the Ramble in Central Park for migratory birds that make New...
Some books require research, the writer visiting archives and interviewing all manner of people.
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Arts Briefs
Union Chapel hosts Kimberle Crenshaw, critical race theory co-founder, on Tuesday, August 24 at 6 p.m.
Peggy King Jorde, an expert on African burial grounds, will give a virtual talk on August 17 at 3 p.m.
Merissa Nathan Gerson celebrates the publication of her debut book this week with a reading and author talk on Tuesday, August 17 at the Martha’s...
