It’s a testament to Tom Dresser’s storytelling gifts that a subject as big as whaling on the Vineyard can be told so well in only 150 pages.

In The Omega Principle Paul Greenberg explores so-called omega-3 fatty acids extracted from humble sea stock like Chesapeake menhaden.

The hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit Martha’s Vineyard every year might think first of the crowded town centers, the busy summertime shops and restaurants, and the quirks and comforts of their various rental properties.

Norm Champ’s new book Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis, succeeds in being both entertaining and instructing.

The Viet Nam War, the 10- part epic documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is currently telling for the country, in segments that are equal parts beautiful and unbearable, the complicated history of the conflict that lasted for nearly 20 years and cost the United States over 58,000 dead.

Cong. Gerry Studds, the subject of Mark Robert Schneider’s tough and smart new biography, is remembered now in offhand conversation for a scandal.