The Lantern

Reading like a blend of Daphne du Maurier, Umberto Eco, and Peter Mayle, this overstuffed gothic romp prompts hasty page-turning to discover whether lovers Dom and Eve will make a go of their relationship, and whether they will ever solve the many spooky mysteries of the house in southern France known as The Junipers, where ghosts roam and errant shadows cluster.

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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