Our Year in Reading 2016 Continues
/Our year in reading continues....
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Sometimes the word friend is drained of meaning, but enemy, never.”
/A splendid new Jack Reacher novel and a posthumous gem by P.D. James – what better way to usher in the New Year?
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The dead can’t lie.”
/Alan Parsons' single-minded, two-fisted policeman sleuth Max Wolfe returns in The Hanging Club.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: An Intellectual All The Time
/An old book by a monk may be the best thing ever written about the practice of thinking. Robert Minto revisits The Intellectual Life.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Fear is the parent of cruelty”
/The French countryside, the death-camp of Auschwitz, and a mansion in County Cork - a trio of new mystery-thrillers takes readers on exotic ventures in search of justice - or payback.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2016 - Literary Journeys
/This 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 MoreFrom 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 MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Folly is like regret, it knows no limits”
/Old loyalties lead to explosive new dangers in two new mystery-thrillers set in North Carolina and Northern Ireland.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Good fortune rarely walks you out the door to your car”
/The 11th novel in Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series and the 2nd novel in John Lawton's Joe Wilderness series share plenty of thrills and character insights in common.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “It’s always good to know whatever the enemies of your enemies are after”
/Locations don't get much different than the Venice of Donna Leon and the Duluth of Brian Freeman, but as two new mysteries show, they have one thing in common: murder!
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “You can choose forgiveness or revenge, but revenge is always costly”
/In two new mysteries - one the start of a new series, one the start of a new career - intricate plots take readers from Upstate New York to the Northern Cascades.
Read MoreThe Books We Want in 2016
/Out 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 MoreIt’s a Mystery: “It’s wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told”
/Complex plotting runs through a darkly humorous new caper from Thomas Perry and the third book in Mick Herron's series about the disgraced spies at MI5’s Slough House.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2015
/In 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 MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The civilized people in the world are the most dangerous people on earth.”
/A Banquet of Consequences is an elegant addition to Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. Bernard Minier’s mesmerizing The Circle more than fulfills the promise of last year’s auspicious debut The Frozen Dead. And Felix Francis just keeps getting better as he proves with Front Runner.
Read MoreOpen Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015
/The Open Letters team of writers and editors divvies up the Fiction list of the venerable New York Times bestseller list and dives right in - with decidedly mixed reactions.
Read MoreOpen Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015 Continues
/The Open Letters Bestseller Feature continues, and the body-count rises!
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “We live in a world in which paranoia is a requirement”
/Three nifty new thrillers star some reigning champs of the genre: Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher, and James Bond.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The only species that is dangerous to humans is other humans”
/A mystery trio: Louise Penny’s 11th Gamache novel is a stellar addition to the series; Elsa Hart’s debut is a fine historical murder mystery set in 18th-century China; Bernhard Aichner’s first appearance in English is spine-chilling.
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