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 achieving civil rights in the United States.

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 are fought and babies are born.

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 poles create,” Ms. Senna said.

Jessica Harris's memoir, My Soul Looks Back, revisits her relationship to Samuel Clemens Floyd 3rd, whose orbit included many of the leading black voices in New York city.

In 2004, the novel Suite Francaise was awarded the Renaudot Prize, a glittering prize for fiction in France. This astounded the literary world because the author, Irene Nemirovsky, had been dead and mostly forgotten for over 60 years.

James Beard award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan’s new cookbook, King Solomon’s Table, is filled with recipes as resplendent as those prepared for the fabled royalty.

Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, recently released her first novel, Quiet Until the Thaw. She will be speaking on Friday, July 7, at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.

Conrad Neuman’s new book, Up-Island Poems, is a short lyrical diary of a poetic soul who went out and came in with the tides, an oceanographer who traveled the world and returned to his Island birthplace to rest, to fish, to tell tales.

In all three of her books, Cornelia Dean, former New York Times science editor, Brown University instructor and Chappaquiddick resident, has campaigned against the misuse of science.

Jonathan White set out to educate himself about tides, traveling from Chile to China. The result is his book Tides: the Science and Spirit of the Ocean.