The Devotion of Suspect X

One of the most popular thriller writers in his native land, Keigo Higashino won Japan's Naoki Prize for Best Novel with this intricate, psychologically compelling tale in which a woman kills her ex-husband and is abetted in her alibi by a brilliant mathematician intent on replotting her act of passion into a perfect crime.

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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