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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Elizabeth Hardwick joined the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan with every intention of making her mark upon it - which she did, in review after inimitable review, taking American book-discourse to levels and places it had never reached before
Read MoreWe live in an age of outrage, yet one of our most egregious 'blood sports' escapes censure from the press. Since long before Hemingway, writers have been calling bullfighting exotic instead of barbaric -- what are they thinking?
Read MoreHow to write a great novel of the financial crisis? One contender has published his attempt, and it features an updated version of that bugbear figure from Shakespeare and Trollope: the Jewish banker.
Read MoreYou think you want to look beauty in the eye? Get ready to tremble... Alice Brittan reviews Michael Cunningham's paradoxical novel "By Nightfall".
Read MoreEver since Cain and Abel, literature has reserved a prominent place for sterling heroes -- and the flawed, grasping, and entirely more interesting brothers who live in their shadow.
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