Open Letters Monthly – February 2011 – Quiz
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The Muse of Trouville
/‘She’s a drug; I’m her main focus, the focus of all her attention. No one has ever loved me like that.' Victoria Best explores the fraught relationship between Marguerite Duras and the young man whose love inspired and tormented her.
Read MoreSquid Pro Quo
/Matt Taibbi is the foremost political-writing muckraker of his generation, matching an acerbic wit with a pressure-cooked prose style. But is there substance behind the bluster?
Read MoreThe Greatness that was Downton
/Julian Fellowes' "Downton Abbey" was shot in a castle, but it may have a nearer relationship to "Mad Men" than "Brideshead Revisited." Joanna Scutts tracks the evolution of the British costume drama.
Read MoreLearning to Read Perfume: A Talk with Chandler Burr
/Our poet of perfume and the curator of the brand new Center of Olfactory Art discuss why perfumes demand to be smelled and why "perfume is the only art form in which Americans are more illiterate than poetry."
Read MoreHistory Without the Moon
/Her reign was epic in length and social impact, but it very nearly didn't happen at all. She ruled through two generations of her people, and she left the British monarchy very different from how she found it. She is Queen Victoria, and our Year with the Windsors starts as it must: with her.
Read MoreA Woman of High Courage
/For nearly three decades, Sara Paretsky has used the familiar form of the private eye novel to turn a critical eye on contemporary America. Rohan Maitzen reviews the latest in her V.I. Warshawski series.
Read MoreAbout Poems
/"The family got the majority of their ideas about families from black and white films. They tried to replicate every important detail exactly"
Read MoreDross of a Passing Dream
/A conversation with Open Letters' new curator, Katie Caron, and an exploration of her upcoming show, "Displaced"
Read MoreThere Can Only Be One
/The United States' first Civil War, Alan Taylor claims, was fought in 1812. Ivan Lett assesses the revisionist argument.
Read MoreA Visit from the Prince
/You think you want to look beauty in the eye? Get ready to tremble... Alice Brittan reviews Michael Cunningham's paradoxical novel "By Nightfall".
Read MoreStill Hoping for Her Close-Up
/Molly Allgood was only a young, up-and-coming actress when her fiance J.M. Synge died of cancer. Joseph O'Connor's novel "The Ghost Light" imagines how the rest of her life played out in the shadow of that loss.
Read MoreOne Common Reader
/Virginia Woolf imagined the Almighty seeing us coming towards Paradise, books in hand: "We have nothing to give them, they have loved reading." But does reading always bring salvation?
Read MoreFebruary 2011 Issue
/"4 Men at a Desk" by Addie Langford
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