A team of activists for banning assault weapons and demanding gun regulation worked a miracle on July 8.

I was driving in bumper-to-bumper, stop-and-go traffic on the Vineyard Haven/Edgartown Road, when my new 2023 Grand Cherokee Summit Reserve Jeep unexplainably stopped, would not restart or come out of park.

Barn House, that “tiny tribe or colony of writing and painting and thinking folk” on the South Road in Chilmark, though thriving healthily through the years in a privacy not much differentiated from freedom, celebrated an occasion on Saturday which demanded mention in the public prints.

Rebecca Makkai, whose breakout novel The Great Believers was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, returned with another novel early this year that aims to confront unreliable memories and the consequences of assumptions.

When journalist and author Andrew Meier set out to write a history of the Morgenthau family, he knew it would be no small undertaking.

Joan Biskupic’s Nine Black Robes presents a portrait of a United States Supreme Court ideologically divided and deeply affected by former President Donald Trump and his appointees.

When Nicole Chung began writing her book A Living Remedy: A Memoir, she did not imagine that her life — and her book — would completely transform.

Tracy Kidder didn’t set out to write a book about rural medicine, tuberculosis and AIDS in Haiti. Or education in America.

When Elizabeth Alexander sat down to write her latest book, she drew upon a lifetime of material from her extensive career as a scholar, author and poet.

Richard North Patterson’s new novel, Trial, puts some of America’s most urgent issues concerning race and voting rights on the stand.