Poem Strip

A graphic novel from the 1960s, drawn and written by one of the too-little-known geniuses of modern Italian letters, author of The Tartar Steppe and Catastrophe and Other Stories.

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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