The Martha’s Vineyard book festival celebrated its 20th anniversary over the weekend doing what it does best — bringing authors and readers together to discuss literature and ideas as well as inspire one another.

At the opening night of the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, talked with three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer Ashley Parker about reporting on the president, Signalgate and the future of news.

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.

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.

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.

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.