Books & Ideas
Buckrammer's Tales by John E. Conway is a collection of memories from sailing adventures with family.
John Hough Jr.'s new book, Little Bighorn, mines history and imagination in considering Custer's Last Stand.
Catherine Walthers digs deep into the richness that is kale in her new cookbook Kale, Glorious Kale.
Philip Weinstein, a literature professor at Swarthmore College, taught a six-part course on Faulkner last fall. Coming up it's Tolstoy's War and...
It was on the Vineyard that Paul Greenberg first encountered the beauty of a functioning ecosystem, where fishing was not merely a symbolic act.
Marshall Goldberg’s masterful The New Colossus rivets the reader into 1888 New York and follows the beautiful and spunky reporter Nellie Bly.
Historian Craig Steven Wilder will give a lecture at this year's annual retreat for Williams College alumni.
Legacy of Light: Poems for the Gay Head Lighthouse holds a collection of poems submitted by Island and off-Island writers celebrating the lighthouse.
A number of high-profile politicians converged on Oak Bluffs on Friday for a low-key but spirited book signing and talk by the South Carolina...
On May 31, 2012, David McCullough Jr. was “just a regular high school English teacher.” But by June of that year, he was regular no more.
Peter Beinart, Alan Dershowitz and Robert Mnookin gathered at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center to engage in a panel discussion on Gaza and the...
In 1973, when Pulitzer Prize-winning UPI journalist Lucinda Franks was 26, she was sent to interview U.S. attorney Robert Morgenthau, who had just...
