From the Archives: Summer Reading 2012
/As the haze and heat of summer kick into full swing, the folk of Open Letters break out their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
Read MoreReview of Shakespeare and Elizabeth
/Garrett Handley reviews Helen Hackett's "Shakespeare and Elizabeth": "Luckily, in the hybridity which governs this book, the fun always wins out."
Read MoreSan Francisco: 1972
/An excerpt from Edmund White’s forthcoming memoir City Boy
Read MoreJoshua Redman Makes His Move
/Joshua Redman’s new album Compass makes some daring allusions to the all-time titans of jazz; John G. Rodwan, Jr. listens to hear how Redman borrows from those pastmasters and how he departs from them.
Read MoreTrouble Shooting: Video Games into Movies
/You’d think any brand of movie that could produce Super Mario Bros. would have no advocates left, but you’d be wrong! Our gaming expert Phillip A. Lobo diagnoses the problem to date and charts a new path for video game movies.
Read MoreSon Retour?
/In 1911, the unthinkable happened: the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. R. A. Scotti tells the story in The Vanished Smile, and Jan van Doop has some ideas of his own.
Read MoreLightning Strikes and Pen Strokes
/Veteran comics illustrator David Mazzucchelli takes center stage writing and drawing his first full-length graphic novel, Asterios Polyp, and Sharon Fulton takes a look at the result.
Read MoreThe Last Train for the Coast
/The advent of the CD threw the retail music business into a disarray from which it hasn’t recovered. Brad Jones, a veteran of that disarray, reads Steve Knopper’s account of the industry’s Appetite for Self-Destruction.
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