History is found everywhere on the Island. Christie Palmer Lowrance hopes her first published children’s book, The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story, documents an important part of that story.

Percival Everett won the National Book Award for his novel James, a retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, perspective.

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.

Michael Ditchfield's upcoming true-crime novella, No Such Agency, recently won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Writing Contest.

For decades, Chilmarker Bob Kaplan has worked as a leadership coach for many influential business executives.

Fred Waitzkin’s latest novel began with a phone call.

From the origins of the banjo as an African instrument to the first country radio hits being sung by Black men, Alice Randall wants readers to know that country music would not exist without the Black people who shaped it.

Grief, family, race, healthcare and identity were at the center of multiple discussions at the recent Martha’s Vineyard Community, Purpose and Legacy Series.

Author Victoria Wright compares confronting her internal bully to that of a caterpillar folding completely within itself and decomposing inside its cocoon in order to be born again as a radiant butterfly.

Ben Shattuck will discuss The History of Sound this Saturday at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, in conversation with poet and Aquinnah resident Ron Slate, who also happens to be his father in law.