The Report

A gripping novel—focusing on the real-life tragedy at the Bethnal Green tube station in London in March 1943, when 173 people died seeking haven from what seemed another German air raid (although no bombs were dropped)—delivers a profoundly moving meditation on the elusiveness of both truth and safety in Jessica Francis Kane's remarkable debut.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

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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