Books & Ideas
Laura Wainwright, previously a teacher and children’s librarian, turned her senses toward the natural world to produce her first book, Home Bird:...
A prominent New England patriarch has died violently, exposing a nest of dark family secrets. That’s the plot of Richard North Patterson’s...
Library Open House
On June 29 from 2 to 5 p.m., the Edgartown library trustees and staff will host an open house to thank the community...
Summer Reading for Kids
The joy of reading is endless. So is the joy of cookies.
With Interventions, Richard Russo’s new collection of short stories, readers get more than just words on the page (or the screen — more on...
Little Murders Everywhere? No, it’s not a warning about the demise of the Island, nor a message meant to scare. It’s the title of a new...
To unenlightened art history students Thomas Hart Benton is the champion of the heartland, a standard bearer for the Midwestern agrarian...
Bookstore browsers and readers of all ages, rejoice: Edgartown Books, one of the Island’s two bookstores, will open today under new...
On Sunday, May 27, Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo and his daughter, Kate, will give a reading at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in...