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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
How do we memorialize a literary titan who shaped his own mythology? The story of legendary writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez gained its protean final chapter in the wave of obituaries after his death in 2014.
Read MoreA 1984 assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forms the unlikely backdrop for Jonathan Lee's US debut novel
Read MoreA complex and moving novel about a trio of young men who leave their native India in search of work
Read MoreIf everybody's a critic, as New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott claims in his new book, then where does that leave criticism? Sam Sacks reviews.
Read MoreThe book Fight Club - and even more so the movie adaptation - have cult fixtures in American culture. But after twenty years, is there anything left for a sequel to subvert? Justin Hickey reads Fight Club 2.
Read MoreCan fiction be overtly political without becoming doctrinaire? A new novel about the Seattle W.T.O. protests succeeds by emphasizing the human complexities involved.
Read MoreKay Boyle, friend to William Carlos Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, and Samuel Beckett, was famous for her short stories but also wrote a lifetime's worth of fascinating letters, now sampled in a new anthology.
Read MoreThe richly diverse voices in A Brief History of Seven Killings paved the way for the novel's success, but does the whole justify up to the hype?
Read MoreA new historical novel joins the ranks of those trying to rehabilitate the reputation of poor Lucrezia Borgia
Read MoreMany kinds of violence haunt a remote California island chain when a nature photographer takes a one-year assignment there
Read MorePopular French science-fantasy writer Serge Brussolo gets makes his debut appearance in English with a story of men and women who treasure-hunt in the dreams of other people
Read MoreThe debut short story collection from a Montana fly-fishing guide
Read MoreNicholas Searle's debut novel stars a canny old swindler who may or may not have found has final, perfect mark
Read MoreIn a distant future without humans, genetically engineered members of other Earth species have evolved societies of staggering - and problematic - complexity.
Read MoreLilliet Berne, hero of Alexander Chee's highly-anticipated new novel Queen of the Night, enjoys the glamorous life of a diva -- but what's below the surface is both more sordid and more tragic.
Read MoreHow many copies of Middlemarch does one person need? When the edition is as lovely as this, there's always room for one more.
Read MoreA name from a hotshot defense attorney's past comes back to haunt her when she discovers her ex is a suspect in a triple homicide
Read MoreAn out-of-work musician is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a legendary blues singer, but the legend hides some grim new realities
Read MoreMisfits and battered believers fill the pages of Kathy Anderson's wise and funny debut
Read MoreThe Nazi slaughter of hundreds of thousands of European gypsies forms the grim backdrop to Lindsay Hawdon's debut novel
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