Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

Does yoga make us more virtuous? Does virtue make us more nimble? Can we "pose" our way to a better life? Claire Dederer's engaging memoir of motherhood, exercise, and self-discovery finds rewarding surprises, for herself and for her readers, in each of those subjects, and several more.

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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