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June 15, 2010

Hunting Eichmann

Now in paperback: Neal Bascombe's authoritative account of Adolf Eichmann's escape from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, and of the world-wide hunt—led by concentration camp survivor Simon Wiesenthal—to pick up his trail and bring him to justice. Riveting history.

Daybook

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…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

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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