Mikael (Misha) Okuns runs the Behind the Bookstore coffee shop and has been a staple of caffeinated life in Edgartown since 2014.

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.

T. Elizabeth Bell, author of the new Martha’s Vineyard novel Sheepish, never intended to write a novel. Now she has three on the shelves: Goats in the Time of Love, Counting Chickens and Sheepish.

In centuries past, whalers kept meticulous records, including their location, daily weather occurrences and whale sightings. Now, researchers are using those logs to develop a better understanding of climate change over time.

Martha’s Vineyard is all over E. Lockhart’s novels. It’s in the fudge and bookstores of her 2014 bestselling young adult novel We Were Liars and the lobster socks and touristy T-shirts of the prequel, Family of Liars.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson headlines the Martha’s Vineyard Black Book Festival, which returns on August 9 for its second year on the Island.