Stormdancer

Jay Kristoff transports the steampunk genre from Victorian London's oft-trodden streets to feudal Japan. In a world brimming with mythical beasts, strange technologies, and dark conspiracies, a young woman sent on a seemingly impossible quest must find her way home and outwit the Shogun who never intended for her to return.

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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