What Light Can Do

In his first collection of essays in more than 25 years, Robert Haas considers subjects that include photography, the relationship between art and violence, and our relationship with the natural world. Interspersed with photos and characterized by the author's unparalleled erudition, this volume perfectly illustrates Hass's claim that "the deepest response to a work of art is, in fact, another work of art."

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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