The two young main characters in Nicole Galland’s boisterously winning new novel Boy are each at a kind of personal crossroads.



A child’s love / The truest of truth / Like pollen to flowers / Little bodies blossom / Where love blooms / Innocent and pure / Loving thy neighbor as thyself / Until they don’t / Where fertile ground / Let’s weeds grow too.

The Martha's Vineyard Book Festival opens on August 1 with a talk from Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, and Atlantic staff writer Ashley parker, a three-time Pulizter Prize winner.

Julia Spiro’s third novel, Such a Good Mom, opens on deceptively conventional grounds.

Following his National Book Award win in the fall, seasonal Vineyarder Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize this week for his novel James.

The visual music / of daffodil and forsythia / sends out vibrations of / early spring