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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Diplomat, author, congresswoman, power broker, playwright - Clare Boothe Luce crammed an enormous amount of living into her life, and the concluding volume of Sylvia Jukes Morris's essential biography gives it all the sparkling narration it deserves
Read MoreA new translation of a bleak and edgy work by one of France's best-regarded crime novelists
Read MoreA generous new collection of essays by the legendary Joseph Epstein
Read MoreJohn Anderson Winn's thumpingly good new book studies the life and reign of Queen Anne through the least likely focus of them all - and succeeds wonderfully on all counts
Read MoreOne of the hard-chancing successors of Alexander the Great grabbed most of Asia when Alexander died - and then that successor and his successors worked desperately hard to hold onto it all
Read MoreDirector Clint Eastwood brings the beloved Broadway musical to the big screen
Read MoreThe super-villain glimpsed at the end of the mega-hit "Avengers" movie casts a long shadow in the comic books where he was born - a new Marvel Comics graphic novel fills in some of the blanks
Read MoreA debut novel follows a charismatic young man's partying days from New Jersey all the way to Scotland and back and charts his downfall as well
Read MoreThe entire vast and vivid history of Egypt is outlined to the reader as Toby Wilkinson's charming new book makes its way down the Nile
Read MoreThe complicated history of the American Revolution gets its best examination in a generation in Thomas Slaughter's new book
Read MoreThe young author of "The Red Badge of Courage" is the subject of a lively and very readable new biography
Read MorePopular writer Martin Dugard offers a new book about history's great explorers, men and women who thought outside the box, pushed the envelope, lived every day as if it were their last, ate their vegetables, and voted three times for Ronald Reagan
Read MoreIn 1571 the Christian West and the Muslim East clashed in an epic sea-battle, and when it was over, painters, writers, and poets echoed it in their works. The latest I Tatti volume collects a bounty of those responses
Read MoreTwo friends flee famine-parched Ireland for opposite ends of the world in this big new historical novel
Read MoreA man adopts a smart, fussy owl - and the relationship completely changes his life
Read MoreA luminous - and enormous - new account of the novel's colorful history takes readers on a fun and fast-paced tour of fiction from Fielding to Diaz, with innumerable stops in between
Read MoreEven in its truncated US edition, Richard Overy's great new history of aerial bombing during WWII has much to offer its readers
Read MoreThe man we think of as the quintessential politician was first and foremost a working author, as an amazing new assessment makes clear
Read MoreKing Henry VIII's last wife referred to her as "Hell," and the Court universally despised her coarse ambition - she was Anne Seymour, and she's the unlikely subject of a nifty new novel
Read More1856 London rang from one end to the other with the celebrated murder trial of Dr. William Palmer. A delightful new history presents the story for a new generation
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