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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
B. J. Novak, the gamine and unassuming star of the American version of The Office, has written a collection of short stories, and that collection, remarkably, got published. Justin Hickey decides to judge it on its merits.
Read MoreAfter his first visit to Italy, Mark Twain pronounced her "one vast museum of magnificence and misery," and yet he returned again and again. Luciano Magniafaco chronicles his journeys.
Read MoreThe startling revelations in Anonymous turn out to be only the beginning: literary sleuths have uncovered a slew of other authorial misdemeanors.
Read MoreA conversation about the enduring appeal of Pride & Prejudice.
Read MoreBoston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
Read MoreA new book argues that Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst stampeded the United States into the Spanish-American War to feed imperial ambition and sell some newspapers. Are the roots of modern America rotten?
Read MoreSam Sacks reviews Jon Clinch’s Finn, a novel about Huck Finn’s father, and decides that it owes a heavy debt to a literary figure apart from Mark Twain.
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