The Natural Mystics

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer: Colin Grant follows the founding fathers of reggae on a musical and historical journey deep into Jamaican culture, emerging with revealing insights into the spiritual and material paths these three visionaries charted. Getting the reclusive Bunny Wailer to talk on record about the seminal band formed by the trio is a coup that makes this an especially important read for music lovers.

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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