Artist and illustrator Margot Datz holds her 16th annual one-woman show at Grange Hall in West Tisbury this Saturday. And an exhibit at the Carnegie Heritage Center is spotlighting her long career.

When author Elinor Lipman sits down to write, she rarely has the concept of the whole book in mind.

The Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival returns to the Island on August 1 for three days of author conversations and readings, in-depth panels and an opening night discussion with editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, and staff writer, Ashley Parker.

Colored Television, the seventh book by Danzy Senna, was published in September of 2024 and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, which focuses on books that make a contribution to the subjects of race and social justice. It was also nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award.

You can learn a lot about an editor from reading the publication they edit. Consider Graydon Carter, former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, whose new memoir is titled When the Going was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines.

Nicholas Boggs still remembers seeing a poster of James Baldwin on the wall of his eight grade classroom. For a time, he thought that was his first interaction with the acclaimed writer and civil rights advocate.