The hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit Martha’s Vineyard every year might think first of the crowded town centers, the busy summertime shops and restaurants, and the quirks and comforts of their various rental properties.

Norm Champ’s new book Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis, succeeds in being both entertaining and instructing.

Cong. Gerry Studds, the subject of Mark Robert Schneider’s tough and smart new biography, is remembered now in offhand conversation for a scandal.

Baseball inspires storytellers, as Jim Kaplan demonstrates in his engaging new book of essays Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on the National Pastime.

In To the New Owners: A Martha’s Vineyard Memoir, author Madeline Blais reckons with the 2014 sale of her in-laws’ summer retreat.

Michael G. West said an 11th century Japanese Buddhist text provided him with a creative spark for his new novel.