Citizens of Louisiana only have to look up at their state flag to see an animal doing some pretty wild — and deeply symbolic — stuff out of a medieval bestiary. But the goal of A24’s “Death of a ...
THE BOOK OF BEASTS (296 pp.)—Translated by T. H. White—Putnam ($5). How does one catch a unicorn? Simple. “A virgin girl is led to where he lurks, and there she is sent off by herself into the wood.