Biographer, critic, and former TLS editor Jeremy Treglown’s terrific new book Mr. Straight Arrow is a biography of author John Hersey and a gripping account of his working life.

Living Life with the Grace of a Butterfly is a collection of 25 essays by Shirley Mayhew.

Nelson Sigelman, a veteran writer on fishing and the outdoor life, is no carpetbagger when it comes to the benign insanity that is all-season fishing.

The Making of Nantucket: Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century, Everett U. Crosby, Spinner Publications, 2018, 250 pages, $27.

On the Same Page, the delightful new book by novelist and Vineyard resident N. D. Galland, centers around an unlikely Capulet-Montague rivalry: two Martha’s Vineyard newspapers.

One of the lesser tolls of tragedy is the way it taints places.