Book Review: 1940
/A spirited new account of the divisive American presidential election race that was held amidst the growing clamor of European war
Read MoreBook Review: Sea Change
/An inquisitive young woman falls in love with an ungainly, weirdly sophisticated alien creature
Read MoreBook Review: Homeward Bound
/A journalist looks at the movement among middle class American women of the 'millennial' generation toward embracing the domestic tasks their mothers and grandmothers cast off
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Timo Andres
/In his new album "Home Stretch," Timo Andres adapts--or is the word mauls?--some classic Mozart compositions
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Despicable Me 2
/The reformed super-villain and his minions return in Illumination Entertainment's sequel to their surprise hit in "Despicable Me 2"
Read MoreArthur Rosenthal
/Arthur Rosenthal
Read MoreBook Review: Nelson - The Sword of Albion
/A monumental deck-clearing two-volume biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson reaches its thundering conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: Gettysburg - The Last Invasion
/In a magnificent new history, the cataclysmic turning-point battle of the American Civil War is studied in meticulous detail
Read MoreBook Review: Our Lives, Our Fortunes & Our Sacred Honor
/Richard Beeman's new book covers some familiar - sacred? - ground
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Elliott Carter
/A collection of uncommonly whimsical music highlights a retrospective album of the late composer Elliott Carter. Norman Lebrecht listens, and smiles.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Heat
/It's a fairly by-the-numbers summer buddy-cop movie - with one important difference!
Read MoreBook Review: Deprivation
/A young man slips in and out of seductive dream realities in Alex Jeffers' fantastic latest novel
Read MoreSummer Reading 2013
/In our annual feature, the Open Letters team offers suggestions for summer reading that take you off the beaten path of blockbusters and beach novels.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2013 continues
/In part two of our seasonal feature the Open Letters staff recommends another trove of unconventional books – and a few old favorites, too.
Read MoreNothing Like Being Scared
/Shirley Jackson is best known – infamous, even – for her chilling story “The Lottery.” But it’s her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, where battle rages between evil within and without, that’s her masterpiece.
Read MoreJuly 2013 Issue
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Read MoreSecond Glance: Reticent Confessional
/Hospital visits, supermarket checkouts, and casseroles - the odd, unassuming verse of Jenny Bornholdt might leave some critics wondering if it's actually poetry at all. Critic Stephen Akey says her work is intimate yet reserved - and warns us not to expect The Duino Elegies.
Read MoreArendt in New York City
/When Hannah Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1964, her moral authority was called into question. Now Margarethe von Trotta’s new film Hannah Arendt explores both who has the right and who has the responsibility to speak about the Holocaust.
Read MoreMesophile Planet
/They breathe poison gas and eat old bones and stones; they are sightless, deaf, and ageless; they flourish in temperatures that would melt iron or freeze concrete; and they live on the strangest planet in the known universe: Earth
Read MoreFour Short Poems
/a poem
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