Reading Between the Wines

Imbibers who've learned to look for the name Terry Theise on the back of German bottles as a mark of quality and value will be delighted to find it now on the cover of a memoir of his life in the wine trade.

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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