Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

The spirit of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries lives on in the adventures of an English vicar playing detective in 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II. James Runcie weaves a tale of suspense and wry humor.

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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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