Dreaming in French

For three extraordinary young women -- Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis -- living abroad in Paris in the years after World War II was a transformative experience. Alice Kaplan offers readers a unique perspective on the hopes and ambitions of these influential figures as their world views were shaped by their time in the City of Light.

May 23: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow died on this day in 1934, gunned down in a police ambush on a road in the north Louisiana woods. The Barrow Gang's crime spree was short and small time, but the young "celebrity bandits" were…

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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