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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
International shipping provides virtually everything around you as you read this (including the computer you're reading it on), and yet most people no nothing about this reclusive industry. Rose George's new book sheds some light.
Read MoreSeamus Heaney
Read MoreThe Battle of Kursk was one of the most epic confrontations in the history of warfare - a vivid new history calls it the turning point of the entire Second World War
Read MoreKuniko Kato, percussion virtuoso, uses marimbas, crotales, bells and vibraphones to adapt the work of classical composers
Read MoreNo matter how an imaginative child might shape-shift, a mother's love follows right along in Nancy Tillman's enchanting new picture book
Read MoreMore than at any point in their collective history, mankind's great ape cousins face the threat of total extinction. A passionate new book outlines all the threats - and clings to some hope
Read MoreIn 1982, Vladimir came to London and gave his first recital in Europe in 31 years. The release of that performance is something no piano lover can do without.
Read MoreRats, snakes, gulls, cockroaches, and half a dozen other notorious varmints - a delightful new anthology takes readers deep inside the world of the animals they love to hate
Read MoreA new paperback explores the mysteries of turtles
Read MoreThe powerhouse annual science fiction anthology series turns thirty with a new collection drawn from all the sci-fi periodicals of the English-speaking world
Read MoreThe great 20th century poet Anthony Hecht was also a charming and indefatigable letter-writer. A new volume does its best to capture the range and wit that captivated two generations of correspondents.
Read MoreCassandra Clare's phenomenally popular novel about a young woman who learns she's a born demon-hunter comes at last to the big screen
Read MoreThe ancient Roman historian Suetonius wrote such a rollicking, gossipy book about the first twelve emperors that historians have been re-writing his book ever since
Read MoreThe exhaustive Yale edition of the complete correspondence of T. S. Eliot reaches a very busy period in the life of Eliot the editor and businessman, working away at the center of a vast and fascinating literary world
Read MoreIn June, Britten's "Peter Grimes" was staged on the beach at the Aldeburgh Festival of Music. The results, Norman Lebrecht writes, were remarkable.
Read MoreThe great - and problematic - 20th century composer gets a broad-minded and intensely sensitive new biography
Read More"In the winter, I stop short in the path to admire how the trees grow up without forethought, regardless of time and circumstances. They do not wait as man does ..." A beautiful new edition of Henry David Thoreau's essays.
Read MoreThe long-rumored psychic powers of the human brain get a high-spirited new examination.
Read MoreA crucial turning-point battle in the American Revolution is given an extensively detailed and tradition-challenging new history
Read MoreThe great Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel was in his mind a composer first and foremost. Norman Lebrecht reviews a recording of his piano works.
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