From the Land of the Moon

In 1940s Sardinia, a single woman approaching 30 was a liability. In Milena Agus's book this is one of the many things the narrator learns about her grandmother—a captivating, enigmatic, largely forgotten family figure that this captivating and graceful debut novel brings to vivid, and haunting, life. A Discover Great New Writers selection.

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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