An Accident in August

The unsettling ambiance that still surrounds the death of Princess Diana is distilled down into the person of one imagined spectator in this tenth novel from French author Laurence Cossé, who posits the existence of an enigmatic female witness to the infamous crash. How one woman's life is upended by this chance happening forms the basis of this suspenseful and surprising page-turner that evokes the works of David Cronenberg and J. G. Ballard.

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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