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January 20, 2011

The Metropolis Case

Four rich story lines involving disparate characters—scattered from 1864 to 2001, yet all enamored of Wagner's transporting opera Tristan und Isolde—converge to deliver a tale of mystery, romance, and redemption through music, craft, and passion. The result is a novel of uncommon narrative richness.

Daybook

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

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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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