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.

Journalists will discuss the unprecedented challenges of reporting on the presidency as well as the latest news from Washington to open this year’s Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival.

Gender, race, politics and the environment are prominent themes in the seventh Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival, which takes on August 5 and 6.

David R. Foster’s new book, A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard, weaves dynamic tales of geology, ecology, history and culture into a vast Vineyard story.

Radio host Diane Rehm was welcomed Thursday by a sold-out crowd in Chilmark. She discussed her new book, her radio show and stepping away from the microphone at the end of the year.

Jane Mayer is not afraid of the dark. She’s reported first-hand on terrorism in Beirut and traced a high-pressure pipeline of hidden money aimed at swamping the American political system. Most recently, in the New Yorker, she’s turned her gaze on Donald Trump.

Matthew Desmond’s book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, illustrates how eviction is not only a condition but a cause of poverty. Mr. Desmond spoke in Chilmark Sunday evening.

This year’s Martha's Vineyard Author Lecture Series will feature seven authors, with Geraldine Brooks kicking off the series next Thursday with a discussion about her novel The Secret Chord.