A crescent by any other name

New Orleans is a sultry kind of magnet, whose presence and history seeps through the skin. Stories induced by the crescent city—as it was, as it is—with a set of curiously refined, other tales form this book; from gourmet cannibalism and Mannerist Italy to war-torn Sarajevo, or that strange country “where nothing ever happens”… Part fiction, reminiscence and chronicle, Allan Graubard writes as if he were living there… And for some time he did.