The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

This latest installment in the exploits of Alan Moore's band of immortal protagonists from literature -- Haggard's Allan Quatermain, Stoker's Mina Harker, Woolf's Orlando, among others -- finds the crew far from the Victorian era of their birth and stranded in Swinging London circa 1969, at the mercy of a wicked, dying sorcerer looking to leap into a young body.  The vivid, Day-glo counterculture captured in Kevin O'Neill's brilliant art proves as deadly as any black magic in the Altamont-style climax.

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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