Bottled Up

Francine Witt is back: armed with a travelogue, a wry charm, and a habit of finding murder where the ros? flows freely. What begins as a biography project about a disgraced Egyptologist quickly spirals into something far stranger: a sealed bottle marked with an ancient glyph, whispers of Empress Jos?phine Bonaparte's secret rituals, and a trail of memory-infused wine-possibly connected to the eccentric Masonic collector Daniel Iffla-that stretches from Amarna to Bordeaux. When her new assis