The concept of law joins the three writers we will be exploring this fall—Dickens, Dostoevsky and Kafka—but our course is not really about legal institutions.

reach of day

I feel a kinship with the Goss Community Press that prints the Vineyard Gazette every week.

I am the cemetery walker. This is not a grim or macabre title. Rather, it’s one of the most spiritually connected aspects of my life.

Ten years ago I started a term as a Tisbury selectmen.

Deep Water Blues by Fred Waitzkin, Open Road, 143 pages, $17.99 .