House of Stone

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid describes his quest to uncover his family's history and his own identity while renovating his ancestral home in Lebanon. A graceful journey through past and present made all the more poignant and arresting by the author's death at age 43, while on assignment in Syria.

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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