Most of the 2023 year-end book lists we’ve been reading are categorized by genre. Not this one. This impressive list of books published in 2023 will be sorted into categories that those of us who visit and live on the Vineyard spend quality time debating. The three categories for this list of books have to […]
Readers of the Fast Forward e-mail newsletter recommended dozens of books for summertime reading. This summer's theme was books by, for, or about women.
We’ve gotten so accustomed to broadcasting the details of our lives across various social media platforms that it’s getting hard to recall that our private lives were once indeed private, by design and by necessity. Katherine A. Sherbrooke’s engrossing new novel, “The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly,” takes place during a time when scandals could […]
This hasn't been a great year for librarians. Across the nation, a flurry of politically motivated challenges to books — especially children's books focused on.