God's Away On Business...

A month of too much drink and too little sleep and the Edinburgh festivals are no more. There's a list of highlights (Amanda Palmer, Rohan Theatre, Picasso and the mesmeric Spiegeltent etc) in the Festival review fresh over on Dogmatika, plus a review of Eduardo Mendoza's No Word From Gurb for some extraterrestrial misadventure in Barcelona.
And with a nod to Stewart D’Arrietta and the acrobats of the Vaudeville Cabaret...