Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - James MacMillan
/The album of the week is the unmatched choral music of James MacMillan and Capella Nova
Read MorePeter O'Toole
/Open Letters mourns the death of enchanting rogue Peter O’Toole.
Read MoreBook Review: We All Sleep in the Same Room
/There's more than mere misery in the expertly-managed passage of events in Paul Rome's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Venetians
/A quick-paced new history of not just of the city of Venice but of the remarkable men and women who strutted across its stage during the long centuries of its life
Read MoreBook Review: Barry Powell's Iliad
/A life-long love of the Classics is distilled into a new translation of Homer's Iliad
Read MoreDecember 2013 Issue
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Read MoreBook Review: My Mistake
/A life-long writer and editor looks back on his life
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington, The Path to Victory
/A massive new biography serves to remind us that war and politics were always intricately connected in the life of the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Splinters
/There's a certain unforgettable sound that can only come from Hungarian composers; a new recording of György Kurtág’s Splinters suite captures it with bracing clarity
Read MoreComics: Thor - War of the Pantheons
/One of the first volumes of a new color reprint series from Marvel Comics features some high-flying adventures by the summer's superhero star, the mighty Thor!
Read MoreBook Review: Heir to the Empire City
/Fresh from chasing horse-thieves in wild Dakota territories, a rail-tough Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City to face bandits of quite another sort - the Tammany Hall sort. A lean new history tells the great story.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2013
/In this annual retrospective, the Open Letters team looks back on the highlights of our 2013 reading.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2013 Continues
/More of our annual retrospective, in which the Open Letters team looks back on the highlights of our 2013 reading.
Read MoreMarc Chagall: Between Paris and Vitebsk
/Perhaps the strangest things about the paintings of Marc Chagall is how frequently they feature Christian iconography. But the habit speaks less to a tension in Chagall's Judaism, Ivan Kenneally suggests, than his attempt to universalize his people's suffering.
Read MoreBridget of Sighs
/The new Bridget Jones novel will make you laugh and cry — but it might also make you fret, as it continues the series’ ongoing celebration of incompetence. Is blue soup really the best we can hope for, or the most we should strive for?
Read MoreStudio Matto e Disperatissimo: The Life and Writings of Giacomo Leopardi
/He was the greatest Italian poet since Dante, but he was tormented by a strict upbringing, ruinous health, and moods of black pessmism. He was Giacomo Leopardi, and this is his story.
Read MoreThousands of Grids
/Building on his previous work, in New Poems Ben Mazer tries to find a balance between structure and fluidity.
Read MoreMy Last Dutchman
/a poem
Read MoreIt Was Fun, the Struggle
/The age of Roosevelt and Taft was also the age of Progressive reform - spearheaded by an amazing team of 'muckraking' writers the like of which the United States had never seen.
Read Morectrl issues
/"Do you see?" the Narrator says. "Don't you know you were dead the minute you hit Start?" Phillip Lobo deciphers The Stanley Parable
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