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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Clinton, Gage, Burgoyne, the Howe brothers - and of course Lord Cornwallis: their names are synonymous in the United States with bumbling defeat, but a rousing new book takes a fresh look at all these formerly infamous figures
Read MoreHugh Jackman reprises his beloved role as the X-Men's hairy clawed Canadian killer, Wolverine
Read MoreA wonderfully-illutrated new volume brings together the latest research about the glittering era that brought us the Sutton Hoo treasure, the epic of Beowulf, and the deep sediment of law
Read MoreA popular science writer looks at the evidence for life on other planets
Read MoreThe latest events in the life of immortal, imperturbable Count Saint-Germain find him in Crusades-era Egypt
Read MoreRousing naval action and atmospheric period drama share the stage in S. Thomas Russell's latest novel, by any other name
Read MoreThe old cast from "RED" reunites, along with some new faces - but is this sequel already showing cracks and wrinkles?
Read MoreIt's only July, but Norman Lebrecht may have found his choral album of the year. A review of the magnificent folk songs in Naxos's "Down by the Sea."
Read MoreTwo teenage misfits - neither vampires nor aliens - form an unlikely alliance that blossoms, naturally, into something more
Read MoreA bored cop in a beautiful French Mediterranean town is suddenly confronted with a genuine murder mystery in the middle of a typical tourist summer
Read MoreThe latest volume in the author's magnificent multi-volume biography covers the last years of Kafka's life - years marked by passionate affairs, political upheavals, and the shadow of his final illness
Read MoreNow in an attractive reprint from Princeton: the first volume in Reiner Stach's towering multi-volume biography of the 20th century's troubled literary godfather
Read MoreHelen Thomas
Read MoreA short Kafka biography by a renowned historian makes some unconventional interpretations of the 20th century's most enigmatic writer
Read MoreThere's gunplay, there's skullduggery, there's the Federal Reserve, and there's the good old Freedom Trail - what more does a reader need on the arc from La Guardia to LAX?
Read MoreIn her newest release, Romanian pianist Raluca Stirbat turns out some exceptionally supple recitals of Bartok and Debussy
Read MoreEndless back-flips alone, Mr. Anderson wryly observes, cannot save a film.
Read MoreA self-absorbed young Brooklyn writer (what else?) goes from relationship to relationship in search of ... what, exactly?
Read MoreIn an entertaining new collection of good old stories, the boundary-line between Sam Spade and Mandrake the Magician is considerably blurred ...
Read MoreAfter an unearthly quiet of nearly three thousand years, he's been the idol of the world for nearly a century - he's the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, and Jo Marchant makes his old story new again
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