The Girl in the Blue Beret

The trauma of the Vietnam War haunted Bobbie Ann Mason's celebrated novel In Country. Now, the author turns to a previous generation's battles. Shot down over Nazi-occupied France, Marshall Stone was helped to safety by members of the Resistance, and he has never forgotten one brave teenage guide. Decades later he strives to find out what happened to her. But time proves a tricky custodian of fact in this search for enduring truth.

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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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