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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
The critical consensus around reclusive Italian novelist Elena Ferrante is enough to make you suspect collusion - but to what end? and at what cost? Rohan Maitzen reviews the reviewers.
Read MoreA lively new book traces the fascinating second life of Lucretius's poem "On the Nature of Things"
Read MoreAfter a harrowing near-death experience, a boy begins feverishly drawing monsters - but are his pictures mysteriously bringing them to life, or preventing them from coming to life?
Read MoreDonald McCaig's energetic retelling of Margaret Mitchell's beloved "Gone with the Wind" gets a new paperback reprint
Read MoreBram Stoker's undying classic gets a new makeover to correspond with a popular TV series
Read MoreRest in Peace
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Read MoreThe latest of S. M. Stirling's novels of the post-technology "Change" takes up the adventures of a new generation in a strange new (and yet old) world
Read MoreA new book looks at the family lives of five Virginian grandees during the American Revolution era
Read MoreFrom Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower to Reagan and beyond - a new book tells the raucous and problematic history of the American Republican Party
Read MoreIn cities and suburbs all over the developed world, dozens of species of birds are making sometimes uneasy adaptations to the yards and neighborhoods and suburbs of human habitations - this is "subirdia," and a spirited new book takes readers on a tour of it
Read MoreAn engrossing new history takes readers past the modern Disney version of Venice
Read MoreWe think of Aristotle as the premiere ancient philosopher, but Armand Marie Leroi's witty, masterful new book urges us to remember that the philosopher was first and foremost a naturalist.
Read MoreA paradox lies at the heart of Christopher Norment's eloquent new book: the sea life of Death Valley
Read MoreHe painted writers, explorers, kings, princes … and Doctor Johnson, and his portraits made him immortal. A gorgeous new book looks at the work of Joshua Reynolds
Read MoreA spry new history re-examines all the forces that converged to compel the separation between the British Empire and the American colonies
Read MoreThe Nurse in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" takes center stage in a new historical novel by Lois Leveen
Read MoreThere's an entire Internet sub-strata that caters to cyber-attacks and "revenge porn," and a sharply-reasoned new book urges that this sub-strata be brought under the rule of law, for the good of all.
Read MoreBefore the age of commercial aviation, travelers of all sorts spent time on passenger vessels, some of which were very humble and others famously grand. New from Seaforth Publishing is a beautiful book documenting that lost era
Read MoreA gripping new book uses a tragedy in Utah to examine the growing menace of texting while driving
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