Books & Ideas
The unexplained sinking of the fishing boat Sol e Mar sent large waves across the waterfront community. In the end this marine disaster led to...
A poetry reading that is as much a celebration of the poet as of the poems is not very common. Yet that was what took place Tuesday afternoon in...
Mytoi Garden on Chappy sets the stage as noted Vineyard poets Lee McCormack, Judith Neeld, Clark Myers and William Waterway read for The Trustees of...
Reading is alive and well on the Vineyard, librarians agreed this week, as they reviewed circulation numbers that show material lending is trending...
Buckrammer's Tales by John E. Conway is a collection of memories from sailing adventures with family.
John Hough Jr.'s new book, Little Bighorn, mines history and imagination in considering Custer's Last Stand.
Catherine Walthers digs deep into the richness that is kale in her new cookbook Kale, Glorious Kale.
Philip Weinstein, a literature professor at Swarthmore College, taught a six-part course on Faulkner last fall. Coming up it's Tolstoy's War and...
It was on the Vineyard that Paul Greenberg first encountered the beauty of a functioning ecosystem, where fishing was not merely a symbolic act.
Marshall Goldberg’s masterful The New Colossus rivets the reader into 1888 New York and follows the beautiful and spunky reporter Nellie Bly.
Historian Craig Steven Wilder will give a lecture at this year's annual retreat for Williams College alumni.
Legacy of Light: Poems for the Gay Head Lighthouse holds a collection of poems submitted by Island and off-Island writers celebrating the lighthouse.
