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/When watching a Quentin Tarantino film, critic Max Ross contends, you can never forget you're watching a Quentin Tarantino flim. But is that a strength or a weakness of his latest, The Hateful Eight?
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When watching a Quentin Tarantino film, critic Max Ross contends, you can never forget you're watching a Quentin Tarantino flim. But is that a strength or a weakness of his latest, The Hateful Eight?
Read MoreIn our annual feature, the Open Letters team offers suggestions for summer reading that take you off the beaten path of blockbusters and beach novels.
Read MoreIn part two of our seasonal feature the Open Letters staff recommends another trove of unconventional books – and a few old favorites, too.
Read MoreIn Andre Aciman's latest novel, a man recalls his time as a graduate student at Harvard, revisiting the early days of a long-estranged friendship.
Read MoreIn this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreIn this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreThe fairy tale has been through several metamorphoses; the next might result in its extinction. Max Ross reviews Jack Zipes's cultural history of the genre.
Read More"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.
Read MoreArt, Truth, Data, Sex, and Facebook--rabble-roused by John D'Agata and Jim Fingal's The Lifespan of a Fact, Max Ross connects them in a key to all nonfiction aesthetics
Read MoreAlberto Manguel’s library of 30,000 books is his Holy of Holies, and his new essay collection is a spiritual (and at times gnomic) journey through its most sacred texts
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