Kate Feiffer

During a recent interview with poet Christopher Citro, I admitted that the term “lyric essay” was new to me.“It’s new to a lot...

Daylight hours are dwindling, and the frigid temps that taunt us are planning their move. Remember the ice moat surrounding your house last winter?...

Last Wednesday, three swastikas were found spray-painted outside the office of a Jewish psychology professor at Columbia’s Teachers College in New York City. In...

I hope someone is compiling a list of books that are set on Martha’s Vineyard. If you happen to be that person, please add...

For the past several years, my friend Richard Michelson — an awardwinning poet, children’s book author, art dealer, and Oak Bluffs summer resident —...

Before “Islanders Write,” we like to ask the writers taking part a few random questions about writing and the writing life. We’re sharing some...

I spent much of last winter contemplating the hundreds of books on the bookshelves in my mother’s foyer. I flipped through them, read passages,...

This year marks the fifth anniversary for “Islanders Write,” the writers’ festival that brings writers, editors, and others immersed in the writing life together...

Peter Pinkletink hopped out of Aquinnah this winter. The irrepressibly charming Peter, whose stories are being told in a series of online books for...

Three frames of a comic strip with three words repeated three times inspired two men to spend some 30 years writing a book. The...

We’re ending the year with a new Friday feature about books. We’re calling it Bedside Table. We'd like to hear about what you’re reading...

 

Before Tim Healy’s first child was born, Healy and his then wife went shopping for items for the baby’s nursery. Along with blankets and...

In a scene from the 1982 film “Tootsie,” Jessica Lange’s character is lying in her childhood bedroom and says to Dustin Hoffman’s Dorothy, “I...

“Islanders Write” is returning for the fourth summer on Monday, August 14, at the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. This daylong event examining the...

I am flummoxed. I am trying to write about Elise Broach’s most recent book “The Wolf Keepers” (Henry Holt and Co.). Elise will be...

“Katharine Cornell swims in the nude,” Guthrie McClintic says in A.R. Gurney’s play “The Grand Manner.” The character of Guthrie, based on Cornell’s real-life...

Ten years after a day of surfing with Bill Nye the Science Guy, West Tisbury resident Gregory Mone entered into a deal to co-author...

In 1991, Art Spiegelman’s breakout graphic novel “Maus” appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for both fiction and nonfiction. This list switch...