Join Belle Burden with Alexandra Styron for an intimate conversation about Strangers, the most talked-about book of the season — and it happened right here on Martha's Vineyard. Burden's extraordinary memoir asks: "How is a woman expected to behave in the face of betrayal?" This special season launch at the Winnetu Oceanside Resort will be followed by a reception.

Alexandra Styron is the author of a novel and two non-fiction books, including the bestselling memoir Reading My Father. She teaches memoir writing in the MFA program at Hunter College. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn and on Martha’s Vineyard.

Join Tayari Jones with Michele Norris for a conversation about Kin, Jones's acclaimed new novel about friendship, class, and family in the 1950s American South — a story of mothers and daughters, sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in that time and place. Jones was just named to the TIME100 list of the world's most influential people, and Kin was recently selected as a New York Times Best Book of the Year So Far and is an Oprah's Book Club Pick.

Michele Norris is one of the most trusted voices in journalism — a former longtime host of NPR's All Things Considered, Washington Post columnist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. She is a senior contributing editor at MSNOW, a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Directors, and host of the podcast Your Mama's Kitchen.

Journalist Daniela Gerson discusses her debut book, The Wanderers, part family memoir, part political history, part romance, which restores a neglected history of the Holocaust, Stalin's regime and survival amid displacement. 

Join former First Lady Jill Biden for a candid conversation about her life in the White House during a singular moment in American history. In her new memoir, View From the East Wing, she reveals her experience of these deeply consequential four years for the first time — before, during, and after the unexpected ending to her husband's bid for re-election — setting the record straight and sharing her story in her own words.

Lee Bollinger, President Emeritus of Columbia University and First Amendment scholar, and Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and staff writer at The New Yorker — join forces for a timely and urgent conversation on freedom of speech on college campuses and in the press. Bollinger's University: A Reckoning and Cobb's Three or More Is a Riot together make for a powerful and provocative pairing.

Named "America's Best Photographer" by Time magazine, Sally Mann is renowned for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects made both sublime and disquieting — images that explore the complexities of family relationships, social realities, and the passage of time. In her new memoir, Art Work: On the Creative Life, she shares the challenges and transcendent pleasures of a lifelong artistic career. We are thrilled to welcome Sally Mann to the island for her first visit.

Few journalists have covered Donald Trump as closely or as long as Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. In Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, Haberman and Jonathan Swan chronicle how the President has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds — and in so doing, altered how the rest of the world understands American power.

Raphael Warnock made history as the first Black senator ever elected from Georgia and serves as senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church — where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. Join us as he discusses The Crooked Places Made Straight, named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2026" by the New York Times. Drawing from his extraordinary journey from that historic pulpit to the United States Senate, Warnock reflects on faith, justice, and the moral courage required in the face of division and inequality. For Warnock, democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea — and this book is his vision for a more just and equitable America where every child has a chance.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson, now chief political analyst at NBC News, joins renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to discuss Freedom Lost, Freedom Won — a deeply personal memoir that traces our nation's tortured racial history through Robinson's own family story, from his great-grandfather's freedom from slavery to his own life today.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and an Emmy, Du Pont, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and author. He is the creator and host of the beloved genealogy series Finding Your Roots, now in its eleventh season.

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo with book critic Ron Charles for a discussion of Under the Falls, a spellbinding new novel about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends. We will be one of the first audiences to hear Russo discuss the book after its mid-August publication.

After more than two decades at The Washington Post, Ron Charles now writes about books, authors, and literary culture on Substack. He served as a juror for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.