Our Year in Reading 2014
/Our unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreStop Their World Spinning
/Against a pervasive American sports culture, author Steve Allmond pits a devastating critique of the savage violence - and staggering toll in injuries and deaths - of football.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 8 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Classics Hollywood Should Ignore
/As Hollywood looks to science fiction and fantasy novels for the 'source material' of its newest CGI spectaculars, Justin Hickey picks ten sci-fi/fantasy books he hopes the studios never find and ruin ...
Read MoreAll Manner of Damned-Fool-Bravery
/A disaffected British colonial officer with a yearning for heroism is relegated to a doomed imperial outpost where he meets a native boy with a yearning for heroes - and from this unlikely pairing, Nick Harkaway's Tigerman weaves its fantastic, moving story.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers
/The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.
Read MoreBook Review: California
/After a handily vague apocalypse, a forlorn hipster couple bickers in the woods in Edan Lepucki's much-hyped debut novel
Read MoreTitle Menu: 12 Hot Summer Reads
/It's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreWilson 2.0
/Daniel Wilson's first book, Robopocalypse was a straightforward adventure story about robots rising up against their human makers. His new book takes that simple premise and expands on it in complex and timely ways.
Read MoreCoral Waxwork Classic
/Rjurik Davidson's stunning debut - an epic of espionage, magic, and beasts migrated out of mythology - isn't the sixth in a series, or the tenth, or the fifteenth; it's that rare thing in the genre: a stand-alone novel
Read MoreEcho Chamber Blues
/Marvel Comics is mopping up at the box office, but what of its rival DC? Our resident expert fisks the also-rans and reminds us about an epic story still waiting to be adapted.
Read MoreWhat Passes for Hope
/One could argue, from the evidence of cable TV ratings, that we've entered the age of the anti-hero. But why are they so popular? Adam Sternbergh's debut novel provides some unexpected answers.
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 MoreSpray-Paint It Black
/Vintage records, black dogs, and lost souls fill Dead Set, a teen novel for readers (of all ages) who are sick of half-hearted Hunger Games clones.
Read MoreShow Me the Body
/Throughout its history, humankind has been both terrified by and obsessed with monsters - hence the booming 'cryptid' industry, traversing the globe in search of legendary beasts like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. A new book looks at the science and psychology behind our modern bogeymen.
Read MoreBook Review: Assault on Sunrise
/In Michael Shea's new novel, an insane movie producer seeks vengeance on the wily extras who eluded his grasp - it's a delightful riff on late-night sci-fi movies ... and a reminder of what sharp fun good science fiction can be.
Read MoreMeanwhile, On the Top Shelf
/Alan Moore's Watchmen is widely regarded as the best graphic novel of them all, and Moore has been outspoken in his condemnation of sequels and spin-offs, refusing to sanction DC Comics' recent "Before Watchmen" string of mini-series. Was Moore right? Or is there creative life after his masterpiece? Justin Hickey explores.
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 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 MoreFrom the Archives: Summer Reading 2012 Continues
/Our feature continues, as more Open Letters folk share their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
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