Book Review: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
/A big new volume commemorates a century of "Best American Short Stories," which began - as with all worthy things - in Boston a long time ago
Read MoreBook Review: The Secret Chord
/The author of such brilliant novels as "Year of Wonders" and "March" takes on the Biblical story of King David
Read MoreBook Review: The Ville Rat
/The odd couple military police sergeants Sueno and Bascom return in Martin Limon's gripping new mystery set in 1970s Korea
Read MoreBook Review: The Dogist
/Armed with camera and tennis balls, a young photographer takes informal portraits of the dogs he meets. The Instagram sensation "The Dogist" is now a book.
Read MoreOpen Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015
/The Open Letters team of writers and editors divvies up the Fiction list of the venerable New York Times bestseller list and dives right in - with decidedly mixed reactions.
Read MoreOpen Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015 Continues
/The Open Letters Bestseller Feature continues, and the body-count rises!
Read MoreUnstable Atoms
/Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset is full of extraordinary encounters. For Kerry Clare, some of them are between her own past and present, her life and her (re)reading.
Read MoreEcology of the Imagination
/For over sixty years, the story of humanity's weird fascination with UFOs has been unfolding across nations and societies. A new book goes beyond easy mockery to ask some, er, probing questions.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Romans - Hits and Myths
/Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Suetonius wrote about the lives and loves of the founding rulers of the Roman Empire. Historian Tom Holland takes up the familiar story in his new book Dynasty.
Read MoreBorder Reports
/How do we become ourselves? For Vivian Gornick, wandering the city streets is one way to both ask and answer that question; for us, her book becomes a bracing guide to doing the same.
Read MoreIntersections
/a poem
Read MoreNot One to Eschew the Everyday
/From the tension between candor and formal presentation, Daniel Brown fashions the moments of discovery that comprise his new volume of poetry, What More?.
Read MoreSoaring Aloft
/Years after his death, Olivier Messiaen remains a divisive figure. Michael Johnson explores the controversial composer’s imprint on modern music.
Read MoreMussolini’s Thoroughfare
/a poem
Read MoreTurning Points: Jane Avril in Paris
/For the woman who became dancer Jane Avril, life was transformed when she realized that what had been called mental illness she could claim for herself as art.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “We live in a world in which paranoia is a requirement”
/Three nifty new thrillers star some reigning champs of the genre: Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher, and James Bond.
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