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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," Woody Allen famously quipped; "I want to achieve immortality through not dying." Robert Minto reviews a new book on what it takes to make it big in the literary afterlife
Read MoreIn a dystopian future, a plucky young woman from a poor village suddenly finds herself at the heart of the corrupt power system and the focal point of a rebellion in "The Hunger Ga-" um, in Victoria Aveyard's "The Red Queen."
Read MoreWildly popular YouTube phenomenon Shane Dawson now has a BOOK!
Read MoreIan Fleming bought a run-down villa in Jamaica and used it as the workshop - and backdrop - for his world-famous James Bond novels. A new book takes us inside the world of Goldeneye
Read MoreFor over a century, Oscar Wilde's notebook on Thomas Chatterton has been regarded as a 'smoking gun' of Wilde's plagiaristic tendencies. A new book radically re-examines the issue
Read MoreJoanna Stafford - niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII - is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Read MoreThree impressionable young 13th-century Franciscans embark on an improbably odyssey to bring a momentous manuscript to the Pope
Read MoreIn a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity
Read MoreEvery day, all around us, everything solid is inexorably corroding into powder. A game new book takes readers inside the surprisingly fascinating world of rust
Read MoreHe established Parliament, hammered the Scots, expelled the Jews, and inspired centuries of biographers - England's King Edward I gets a lively new biography
Read MoreThe Ottoman Empire joined the fighting of the First World War deeply misunderstood by both sides; a charismatic new book seeks to clarify the story of that odd meeting of East and West
Read MoreSpecies arrive, thrive, and then go extinct - but after the long and frightful reign of Homo sapiens ... what?
Read MoreSabina, the wife of the enigmatic Roman emperor Hadrian, is beset by enemies in Rome - and safeguards a secret they'd all kill to know ...
Read MoreA businessman is on a trip to new-money Tunisia when the world's economy goes into meltdown...
Read MoreThe great Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa claims he became a writer in order to annoy his father; his new novel takes up this age-old theme of the strife between fathers and sons.
Read MoreDC Comics gives writer/artist Darwyn Cooke's masterpiece The New Frontier, a shrewd and powerful re-imagining of DC's iconic superheroes, the glorious hardcover edition it deserves. Justin Hickey re-reads.
Read MoreThe Works Progress Administration did more than set thousand of Americans to building bridges and roads in the 1930s; it also fostered art, as an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Art Gallery lavishly illustrates.
Read MoreAs we should expect from someone whose previous work is both experimental and kinky, Miranda July has written a first novel that refuses to play by the rules.
Read MoreWhen Homo sapiens appeared in Europe 45,000 years ago, most of the long-established species there - including the Neanderthals - began to disappear. Did Homo sapiens wipe them out? And if so, did they have help from somebody right there in your living room?
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