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‘Anything Is Good’

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“I could not have written this book without the storytelling gift and unsettling insights of Ralph Silverman,” reads the preface to Fred Waitzkin's new...

A serene Sunday morning becomes a nightmare

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You could fill a long shelf with books written about Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 82 years ago, and yet Marc Favreau of...

‘Trial’: Richard North Patterson at his best

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Vineyarders browsing through Edgartown Books or the Bunch of Grapes this summer should beware of towering stacks of “Trial” (Post Hill Press), the 23rd...

Preserving an era

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"This is an account of one citizen's attempt to engage his government during a particularly troubled time of our national life ...1965 to 1974."...

‘My Shenandoah’

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The Vineyard seems to attract characters on a mission of one sort or another, and no one exemplifies this better than Robert S. Douglas,...

Larger than life

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In a country where the overwhelming majority are descended from immigrants, and where immigration policy has always been a hot-button issue, it's no wonder...

Natural-born teacher

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A good teacher gets you thinking as soon as possible, whether in a lecture, seminar, or in person. Good teachers also challenge students, rather...

Look back for a way forward

For those of us who were by turns startled, mystified, and disturbed by some of the events that have shaped our country since the...

A different time of self-isolation

When the coronavirus started to look inevitable a few weeks ago, we had a choice. Bury our heads in the sand or try to...

Journey for independence

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“Child Bride,” a first novel by Jennifer Smith Turner of Oak Bluffs set for mid-April release, takes us on a long, treacherous journey from...

Aquafarming on the Vineyard

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As the pressure on natural resources grows worldwide because of population growth, so is there an increasing urgency to find ways to supply people...

Jack Fruchtman will make sense of Thomas Paine

Political turmoil of the sort currently roiling our country can make citizens anxious, defensive, and dangerously partisan. But if we calm down and try...

Islanders Read the Classics: Philip Weinstein on Beckett

When you have a chance to witness an expert at work, why not take it, especially if it’s free of charge? Islanders who like...

The whole man behind WoodenBoat Magazine

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In a coastal community about evenly divided between fishermen and sailors, the latter stuffed themselves at a visual feast at the Film Center on...

Two weeks that changed my world

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I was rolling high in the spring of 1970. I’d just made it through my first winter on Martha’s Vineyard, living in my family’s...

Ward Just looks back to ‘The Eastern Shore’

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As the image of an Adirondack chair on the cover of Ward Just’s 18th novel suggests, “The Eastern Shore” is the relaxed but not...

Edward Hoagland unveils third novel, ‘In the Country of the Blind’

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Best known as a highly regarded essayist, Edward Hoagland of Edgartown has also written three novels. The first, “Cat Man,” published in 1956, came...

Reading ‘Moby Dick’, and learning to love a whale of a novel

Last fall, I read “The Brothers Karamazov” for the literature class that Phil Weinstein offers to Islanders each autumn. Despite a clever plot, the...

Doug Cabral publishes first book, with help from his canine sidekicks

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When Doug Cabral first set out to produce a book a couple of years ago, he planned to publish a collection of the columns...

Martha’s Vineyard musicians recapture the magic

When word got around a year or so back that Will Luckey of West Tisbury and Tim Goodman of Vineyard Haven were collaborating on...