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

We the People. The famous first words to the Preamble of the United States Constitution were the core of Michael Steele’s message to his audience Thursday night, during the third week of the Summer Institute’s speaker series.

In Joseph Lee’s debut book, Nothing More Of This Land: Community, Power and the Search for Indigenous Identity, he tells the story of Indigenous tribes around the country in an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be Native.

The Chilmark Community Center hosts former Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner on Friday, July 18, for a conversation about the 20th anniversary edition of his book CAMP: Life, Leadership, and Why You Never Stop Paddling.

Carrie Anne Vanderhoop told a crowd at the Aquinnah Cultural Center last week that she hopes her new children's book, Wôpanâak Seasons, provides more representation for tribal children and introduces more people to the Wôpanâak language.

Fanny Howe, an award-winning poet who preferred the quiet life to center stage, died on Tuesday, July 8.