Book Review: The Dart League King
/In Keith Lee Morris' novel, a rogues gallery of characters come together at a league dart tournament. Sam Sacks reviews.
Read MoreOctober 2008 Issue
/"One is the Loneliest Number" by Wes Thomas
Read MoreThe Education of Barack Obama
/A mere month remains until the most fiercely fought and most historically pivotal American presidential election of the last half-century. In July, Greg Waldmann served up an in-depth look at Republican John McCain. Here, just in time for the election, he does likewise for Democrat Barack Obama.
Read MoreEpilogue, Notes for an Eclogue
/A poem by Andrea Zanzotto, translated by Wayne Chambliss
Read MoreThe Vampire Fan(g) Guide
/In honor of the spookie chills of autumn (when the Earth's average temperature plunges from 137 to a shivery 87), we re-present a classic OLM piece on vampire fiction for you to sink your teeth into!
Read MoreMurders Most Foul
/What constitutes particularly Southern fiction? In reckoning Ron Rash’s Serena, Karen Vanuska goes below the Mason-Dixon line in search of something that sets Southern fiction apart – aside from all the dead bodies stacked like cordwood.
Read MoreIs There a Doctor in the House?
/Neuroscience? In Elsinore? Lianne Habinek has Hamlet on the brain and goes at the question in book and volume. You may never think about Hamlet, or think about thinking, in the same way again.
Read MoreThe Lord Won’t Mind
/Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson achieved immortal fame in his Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862. Peter Cozzens re-examines the man behind the legend, and Steve Donoghue adjudges the results.
Read MoreWrite, Repeat
/Notorious critic and essayist Christopher Hitchens has commented that certain writers are not shy of repeating themselves, and his critics have fired it right back at him. John G. Rodwan, Jr. enters the echo chamber.
Read MoreSet in a Turquoise Sea
/“It assaults me, and I adore it!” exclaimed Isabella Stewart Gardner of the legendary city of Venice, and legions of visitors have felt likewise. Venetian writer Tiziano Scarpa writes a love-letter to his spellbinding native city. Professor Hugh Seames has the oar.
Read MoreThe New Road to Meritocracy?
/With his new book and coinage Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe argues that a democratic, everyman wisdom is the secret to business success. So is the vox populi really the key to quality? Kathleen Smith, crowd of one, weighs the argument.
Read MoreThe Master Touch: One Encounter with Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
/William Shakespeare lived under the Tudors for most of his life, but he only wrote about them once, in his play The History of the Life of King Henry VIII – or did he? In our latest One Encounter, and also the new installment in his “Year with the Tudors,” Steve Donoghue takes a look at that play and the fractious theories attendant.
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