A Year with the Tudors II: Have You Heard It?
/A new book on the famous Tudor dynasty promises that most alluring of all perspectives on royalty: the back-stage details. But can it succeed? A Year with the Tudors continues.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: “You Are My Grace”
/Jane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2016
/In our regular year-end feature, Open Letters editors and special guests look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2016
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreSingle Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
/For a century, humans have been searching for any sign of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. A new book tells the story of that quest - and keeps its geeky hope alive.
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
/According to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.
Read MoreBook Review: Legible Religion
/How do you manage to have religion without scripture? As a fascinating new book demonstrates, inn this as in so many other seemingly impossible paradoxes, the ancient Romans found a way.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2016 - Literary Journeys
/This year in our annual Summer Reading feature, our writers recommend favorite books that take us on journeys - through time, around the world, or just out of ourselves.
Read MoreAt Play with Clay
/Ever since Mary Shelley wrote her weird masterpiece two centuries ago, it's been impossible to keep a good monster down. In the Shadow of Frankenstein gives readers two dozen pastiches that keep the Creature alive.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Summer Reading 2015 - Cool Reads
/This year the staff and contributors of Open Letters Monthly recommend their summer reads with an unusual theme: the cold.
Read MoreLet's All Meet at the Mahalalel Mall
/A thorough and even-handed new book gives readers a tour of the "Creation Museum" in Kentucky - and warns not to dismiss its dangers too readily.
Read MoreDiscussion: Middlemarch for Book Clubs
/Open Letters Senior Editor Rohan Maitzen discusses her new ebook, Middlemarch for Book Clubs
Read More'Yes, Yes, Yes!'
/To be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreThe Skin Crowd
/A sumptuous new book lays a vast roll call of frogs before the reader and opens a window onto the strange world of the world's most popular amphibian.
Read MoreThe Lost Boy
/A new book studies the history of copyright and the life and legacy of Aaron Swartz, one of copyright's groundbreaking interpreters for the new century.
Read MoreThe Books We Want in 2016
/Out of the million+ books scheduled to appear in the coming year, a few titles in particular have caught the eyes of our editors. Which? And why?
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2015
/In the course of the year, many, many books cross the paths of OLM's editors, and the end of the year is a natural time for reflecting on that endless stream. Our editors each pick a book from their year-in-reading that stood out from the rest.
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