Books & Ideas
Fred Waitzkin, whose memoir Searching for Bobby Fischer inspired the movie by the same name, has been waiting his whole life to write a novel. A...
Grace Burton-Sundman, age 25, set off on a Rwandan adventure at the end of last year, a journey she was able to make with the support of her family...
What if a deceased dog could talk? What if hippos went on holiday?
Those are some of the questions asked and answered by the former U.S. poet...
Kate Feiffer has made a name for herself writing children’s books and even transforming one of her books, My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life, into a...
The first annual Keren Or Literary Festival welcomes authors Julia Newman, Sarah Caravallo, Estelle Ana Baca and Paul West to the Katharine Cornell...
Michael Pollan left an overflow crowd at the Farm Institute with a clear message last week: start cooking.
“You can take a deep dive into the soul...
The Oak Bluffs Library brings the Harlem Renaissance to light with a special exhibit of an original manuscript by Langston Hughes. His poem Cubes is...
As a jury deliberates in a Boston federal court over the fate of notorious mobster James (Whitey) Bulger, families of victims, law enforcement and a...
Steam rose from many, many mugs of coffee on Saturday morning as the Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival began at the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown....
On the pristine lawn of the Styron residence, where the pink and orange tones of sunset moved in above the gently-rocking sailboats of the Tisbury...
In the summer of 1971 Michael Pollan’s pig Kosher won first prize at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair. But her glory was short-lived....
Throughout her life, Fanny Howe has consistently chosen to do what she loves most, never expecting to be compensated, much less be read or...
