A History of Violence
/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 MoreSummer Reading 2013
/In 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 MoreSummer Reading 2013 continues
/In part two of our seasonal feature the Open Letters staff recommends another trove of unconventional books – and a few old favorites, too.
Read MoreSnobs of Extraordinary Ability
/In 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 MoreOur Year in Reading 2012
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2012 Continues
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreNever-Neverland
/The 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 MoreFrom the Archives: A Voyeur in the Archives
/"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 MoreFacts, And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them
/Art, 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 MoreIlluminations
/Alberto 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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