Our Year in Reading 2017
/Open Letters closes its run with our regular year-end feature, as our editors and contributors look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2017.
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Open Letters closes its run with our regular year-end feature, as our editors and contributors look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2017.
Read MoreFrank Kermode consumed all of the tumultuous 20th century's literary theories without being consumed by them. A look at the work of this wisest of secular clerics.
Read MoreThe summer months might be lazy and carefree in theory, but in 2017 certain specters loom over even the laziest warm day - in our annual feature, OLM editors and regulars write about political literature.
Read MoreIn times of crisis, what good are books, exactly? Two explorations of the virtues of reading and writing make the hard sell for literature's continued relevance.
Read MoreIn our regular year-end feature, Open Letters editors and special guests look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2016
Read MoreThis year in our annual Summer Reading feature, our writers recommend favorite books that take us on journeys - through time, around the world, or just out of ourselves.
Read MoreThis year the staff and contributors of Open Letters Monthly recommend their summer reads with an unusual theme: the cold.
Read MoreIf everybody's a critic, as New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott claims in his new book, then where does that leave criticism? Sam Sacks reviews.
Read MoreOut of the million+ books scheduled to appear in the coming year, a few titles in particular have caught the eyes of our editors. Which? And why?
Read MoreIn the course of the year, many, many books cross the paths of OLM's editors, and the end of the year is a natural time for reflecting on that endless stream. Our editors each pick a book from their year-in-reading that stood out from the rest.
Read MoreThe Open Letters Bestseller Feature continues, and the body-count rises!
Read MoreThese fairies of the air are among the most beautiful sights of summer. They're also 300 million years old and honed killing machines. A new book of photography shows us dragonflies as we've never seen them.
Read MoreBook critic James Wood is a fascinating collection of contradictions: an apostate true believer, a champion of experimental fiction, an earnest searcher in empty temples. Sam Sacks reads one of our foremost readers.
Read MoreOur unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreThe great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.
Read MoreIt's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreFor a little over two years, shortly before she died, short story master Katherine Mansfield wrote a weekly book review column. Those pieces not only shed light on Mansfield's particular slant of genius, but have much to say about the embattled art of reviewing.
Read MoreFebruary would be unremittingly bleak if it weren't for the excuse it gives us to ponder the meaning of love, that many-splendored thing. Our editors offer up their favorite literary treatments.
Read MoreSam Sacks midwifes a new feature into existence with a list of books containing memorable scenes about childbirth.
Read MoreIn this annual retrospective, the Open Letters team looks back on the highlights of our 2013 reading.
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