Softball players at Flanders Field in Chilmark paid tribute last Sunday to Jerome Kohlberg, who died two weeks ago at the age of 90.

In a new e-book the Pulitzer prize-winning author and West Tisbury resident travels the Keystone pipeline and discovers an energy rush that could change America. An excerpt.

Someone once told me that writers are people who have failed at other careers. That’s not always true, but it is for me.

Editor’s Note: This week saw the publication of the book Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz. The book is an in-depth account of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, giving the abolitionist center stage in both the context of the time and of history. The result is a layered, nuanced account of a man who, if given much notice at all in high school history books, is often depicted as a crazed traitor to his country.