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September 5, 2012

A Wilderness of Error

Celebrated documentary filmmaker and author Errol Morris couldn't stay away from the baffling and contentious case of Jeffrey MacDonald, a military doctor convicted in 1979 of murdering his family.  Two decades of intense research have resulted in his electrifying re-examination of the crime.

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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,…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

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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