Focusing on five great disasters, Rebecca Solnit (River of Shadows) finds in the debris of earthquakes, explosions, and hurricanes the most fateful flowerings of the human spirit.
May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…
Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.
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