This story sent our conversation down the road of all the things that get lost and found — the many lives our objects have, the many stories that are still waiting to be unearthed. In this ...

Jefferson is the focus of one of the 12 chapters in Mr. Reade’s “What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of ‘Paradise Lost.’ ” In addition to Jefferson, the book surveys the ...

The novelist Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”) touches on this painful phase in her third book for ... in a second story of unlikely friendship in “Orris and Timble: Lost and Found,” by ...