Prepare your taste buds for an afternoon of food, wine and conversation. The third annual Cook the Vineyard luncheon returns to Lola’s on Monday, July 18 with a full plate of cookbook authors.

Love thy neighbor, author James Carroll stressed as he opened the Summer Institute's annual speaker series on Thursday night. This message was part of a powerful lecture defending the role of religion in an increasingly secular and violent world.

Robert Bernstein's memoir chronicles his legendary career in publishing — from office boy-in-waiting at Simon and Schuster to president of Random House ­— and his years of human rights advocacy.

On Tuesday evening, weavers and woodworkers, hair stylists and musicians traveled from all corners of the Island to celebrate the launch of Jane Dreeben’s book, The Urge to Create: 50 Vineyard Portraits.

A mysterious drowning in Oak Bluffs harbor sets the stage for Cynthia Riggs’s 13th novel, Bloodroot.