Book Review: India Black and the Widow of Windsor
/High society madam and sometime-spy for the Crown, India Black investigates a threat to the life of Queen Victoria herself in Carol Carr's latest delightful romp.
Read MoreBook Review: When Passion Rules
/In Johanna Lindsey's latest, the heiress to a distant kingdom returns home to stop a war and promptly falls into tempestuous love with the captain of the palace guard, giving whole new meanings to 'porous borders'
Read MoreAnthology Review: Cape Cod Noir
/A noir mystery anthology takes us down the mean streets of ... West Brewster?
Read MoreBook Review: The Favored Queen
/A new novel tries to infuse life and drama into the mousy, deferential person of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Thief's Guide to Venice
/In his latest adventure, (mostly) reformed thief Charlie Howard finds trouble in the much-storied Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Superman Secret Origin
/A thrilling re-telling of the famous origin story of the Man of Steel
Read MoreCoterminous
/If anything's taboo in our society it's a thoughtful, humanistic portrait of a terrorist, which is why more established writers failed where Jarett Kobek delivers something new.
Read MoreOn Reading a Five-Volume Biography of Prince Albert
/Maligned as nothing but handsome breeding stock, this German import did more to redefine the role of the monarchy than any subsequent royal, consort or king.
Read MoreSentimental Education
/Though most people don't understand musical notation or the theory underlying it, nearly all classical music writing relies on it. Today, the initiate has a better option: YouTube.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Brahmin Dreams: In Search of the Capital of The World
/Boston without Brahmins, like Vienna without Jews, frames shifting capitoline visions, visions much more in the spirit than most realize of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who actually wrote: 'It dwarfs the mind to feed it on any localism.'
Read MoreDevil Twins
/Is Don DeLillo's short game as good as his long? Is it better? His first collection of short fiction -- or is it his first? -- offers occasion to take the much-lauded writer's measure.
Read MoreFor Singular Consideration
/A conversation with Maureen Thorson, Open Letters' new poetry editor, founder of NaPoWriMo, and publisher of Big Game Books
Read MoreGraphomaniacal
/"I've never been terribly attracted to pretty things in general. Pretty and bland seem synonymous to me, and there's certainly a lot of that in the art world already." -- a conversation with Bill Amundson
Read MoreGeneralissimo
/James Madison was more cautious and purposeful than the temperamental Hamilton or the effusive Jefferson. Indeed, to paraphrase Brookhiser, Hamilton was a rocket, Jefferson was a kite, Madison was a ballast.
Read More“The Desire for Motion”: Tagore’s Three Voices
/Prince of the Bengali renaissance, internationally feted poet, composer, painter, educator -- why don't we know Rabindranath Tagore today? And will a new book open our eyes?
Read MoreLast Month's Issue
/A new history of China, the year's reading highlights, who was Terence Rattigan?, who was Horace?, mainstream perfumes!, a new James Bond, new fiction, and the end of the end of A Year with the Windsors
Read MoreJanuary 2012 Issue
/Bill Amundson"The Promised Land"
Read MoreThe OLM Quiz: Last Days!
/Before the Mayan prophets have the last word, try this month's Open Letters quiz!
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