The Ripple Effect

Can't imagine living without enough petroleum? What about water? A lack thereof is the reality today for millions, and a likelihood for millions more in the future. Paul Prud'homme intelligently and dispassionately surveys the landscape of our shrinking fresh water supplies, and finds the irrefutable parched results hard to swallow.

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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