Fabergé Monsters
/These fairies of the air are among the most beautiful sights of summer. They're also 300 million years old and honed killing machines. A new book of photography shows us dragonflies as we've never seen them.
Read MorePress Enter
/Author Jacob Silverman contends in his new book that the intrusions of social media into our private lives has reached sometimes intolerable extents. But what does he mean by "intolerable"? And who is he counting as "our"?
Read MoreMembers in Good Standing
/Two books by Mark Leibovitch create a picture of Beltway wheelings and dealings that's almost unbearably incestuous, with virtually no lines drawn between elected officials and profiteering lobbyists. Greg Waldmann plumbs the depths and reports back.
Read MoreOne Encounter: John Koch's Figure on a Bed
/In his painting "Figure on a Bed," John Koch immortalizes the kind of private moment that's usually lost in an instant - Brett Busang muses on one arresting piece of art.
Read MoreRuins, Mourning, and Cigarettes
/Set in the precarious territory between fiction and history, Nicolas Rothwell’s beautiful, haunting Belomor explores the ways storytelling serves as an impetus for self-discovery.
Read MoreNanook of the North
/a poem
Read MoreUnmaking L'empereur
/The 2nd Light Battalion King's Division played a pivotal role at the Battle of Waterloo, as a slim new history by Brendan Simms demonstrates. Matt Ray reviews the book in his Open Letters debut.
Read MoreRealism and Russia’s Fate
/The star translating team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (aided this time by Richard Nelson) translate Turgenev's A Month in the Country, with predictably disruptive results. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read More
