Evolution

Biologist Jay Hosler teams up with accomplished comics artists Kevin and Zander Cannon (the co-working Cannons are not related, by the way) to deliver a graphical guide to a complex subject. Casting their narrative as an alien-conducted tour of a hypothetical museum, the creators delve into macro and micro Darwinian matters. Accurate and entertaining.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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