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Stories by Steve Donoghue

Vineyard Bookshelf: Everybody Lies

November 25, 2020
Steve Donoghue

Everybody Lies by Emily Cavanagh, Bookouture, 2020, 282 pages, $10.99. Great Rock, the sea-island setting for Emily Cavanagh’s new novel Everybody Lies, is a close-knit place centered mainly...

The Right Man at the Right Time to Set the Record Straight

November 16, 2020
Steve Donoghue

The Brownsville Texas Incident of 1906: The True and Tragic Story of a Black Battalion’s Wrongful Disgrace and Ultimate Redemption, by Lieutenant Colonel William Baker. Red Engine Press, 2020,...

Vineyard Bookshelf: The Rise of Tourism on Martha's Vineyard

July 23, 2020
Steve Donoghue

The Rise of Tourism on Martha’s Vineyard by Thomas Dresser, The History Press, 2020, 157 pages, $21.99. Thomas Dresser, in his new book The Rise of Tourism on Martha’s Vineyard, quotes...

Vineyard Bookshelf: Someone Else's Secret

July 9, 2020
Steve Donoghue

Someone Else’s Secret by Julia Spiro, Lake Union Publishing, 2020, 415 pages, $14.95 Lindsey Davis, the main character in Julia Spiro’s debut novel Someone Else’s Secret, is at...

Free at Sea But Not on Land

June 11, 2020
Steve Donoghue

Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy by Skip Finley, Naval Institute Press, 2020, 304 pages, $42. Readers familiar with Moby Dick will re member Dagoo, the statuesque African...

The Ghost and Ms. Gordon; Vineyard Author Debuts First Novel

May 28, 2020
Steve Donoghue

The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early, She Writes Press, 2020, 364 pgs., $16.95. Eleanor (Els) Gordon is almost hollowed out by grief and stress and general burnout at the beginning of Alice...

Vineyard Bookshelf: 117: The Long Year of Revolution

March 12, 2020
Steve Donoghue

1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton, Knopf, $32.50, 480 pgs. Even before the American Revolution was over, people were arguing about when it started. Was the kickoff date 1770,...

Vineyard Bookshelf: Universal Love

February 3, 2020
Steve Donoghue

Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein, Henry Holt, 2020, $26, 221 pgs. Universal Love, the new story collection by Alexander Weinstein, the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of...

Vineyard Bookshelf: Spies

November 14, 2019
Steve Donoghue

Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau, Little, Brown, 2019, 306 pgs., $19.99 Marc Favreau’s new book Spies opens with the gripping story of a woman who’d...

Vineyard Bookshelf: There You Are

October 31, 2019
Steve Donoghue

There You Are by Mathea Morais, Amberjack Publishing, 2019, 311 pages, $24.99 Mathea Morais teaches at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School and is the new director of the Noepe Center...

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