Books & Ideas
Angela Davis is no stranger to injustice. She grew up in Birmingham, Ala. in the era of segregation, was acquitted after being wrongfully...
Music videos, movies, the Internet and the news have embedded the stereotypes of African American men as dangerous and violent in society, said the...
Poetry Reading
The last literary event of the summer at the West Tisbury Library is a joint poetry reading with part-time resident Fanny Howe and...
Summer on the Vineyard conjures images of sand and surf, beaches and breaking waves, water and . . . wagging tails?
When most guests sit down to a dinner at Beetlebung Farm in Chilmark, they usually glance at the menu and then set it down again, absentmindedly...
p> Summer Is. By M. Lesnikowski, 21 pages, Southern Lion Books, $20. Vineyard-born artist Molly Lesnikowski, who has written two earlier...
Daily newspapers shuttered. Radio and TV networks swimming in red ink. Reporters and editors enduring widespread buyouts and layoffs.
This was...
Excerpted from Bountiful: A History of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society and the Livestock Show and Fair, by Susan Klein, with photographs...
Haven’t you ever wondered about the meaning of skulls, angels, urns and other symbols carved into gravestones? Or what it was like to live in the...
How does one end up writing a book about a star child? For that matter, what is a star child?
Author Kay Goldstein was wondering the same thing a...
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Jorie Graham has been coming to the Vineyard for thirty years. She often derives inspiration from the natural beauty of...
When Charles McGrath wrote about the annual Island Cup game between the Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket football teams for the New Yorker in 1984, he...
