A Question of Belief

Leon's nineteenth Commissario Guido Brunetti novel finds the ruminative inspector solving another Venetian murder in the company of his regular colleagues, his Henry James loving wife, and the preternaturally resourceful Signorina Elettra.

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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