Unorientalized
/Anthony Burgess' first novels were a series of dark comedies set in colonial Malaya. Did he fall prey to Edward Said's Orientalist crtitique, or did he anticipate it?
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreTraveler at his Desk
/Burgess gave himself room to stretch his arms (and facts) in the two volumes of his Confessions. That space to digress, opine, sing songs, is what makes both books so memorable -- even indispensable.
Read MoreSharing A Cab
/Give Anthony Burgess a check and he’d write anything, even a Time-Life picture book. Which doesn’t mean that his 1976 guide to New York is anything less than fascinating.
Read MoreFate’s Engine
/Commissioned to translate Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Anthony Burgess decided on a few changes to the text. What were they, and what do they teach us about fate?
Read MoreToo Much Signal
/Nate Silver is currently enjoying his status as that unlikeliest of people, the celebrity statistician. Does his bestseller The Signal and the Noise live up to its carefully calculated expectations?
Read MoreNothing To Do With Dante
/Kathleen Rooney's poems in Robinson Alone can be read two ways--as standalone pieces and as connected parts that form a single poetic narrative of a character's life
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2012
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy: Gods of Copley Square – Centerpiece 4
/"Truth is Catholic, but the search for it is Protestant," quoth W.H. Auden, and this month Phillips Brooks is at Lourdes, of all places, his liking for which can only be explained by his experiences at Benares.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The last stop before the sea”
/A city in northern England and a remote Scottish island are appropriately bleak settings to launch two impressive new series.
Read MoreA Year in Reviews at OL Weekly
/Open Letters Weekly has been the venue for hundreds of book reviews in 2012. For your reading pleasure and holiday book-buying convenience, we gather them here in chronological order.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2012 Continues
/In this special feature, we look back at some highlights of the reading we did in 2012.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Tribute and Farewell
/A look back at Anne Carson's book-length elegy "Nox," in which readers are asked not only to unfold the poetry's symbols and allusions but also the accordion-like book itself.
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