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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster is merely the newest Great Gatsby for film or television--four adaptations before it attempted to capture the dazzle and pathos of the classic. Matt Sadler us on a tour of West Egg across the decades.
Read More"He calls you a swine," Walter Lippmann once wrote of H.L. Mencken, "and he increases your will to live." A reissue of Mencken's 1926 rabble-rouser Notes on Democracy shows the journalist at his insulting, rejuvenating best.
Read MoreFor two generations, the great American critic and man of letters Edmund Wilson has been instructing and delighting his readers - and inspiring some of them to become critics themselves.
Read MoreThe protagonist of Teju Cole's "Open City" roams New York, gathering and subtly processing observations; Andrew Martin trails this enigmatic walker in the city.
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