The One Who Gets Wounded
/Adam Johnson’s stories cast us adrift in moral, emotional, even existential uncertainties; the only reassurance they offer lies in the excellence of the fiction itself.
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Adam Johnson’s stories cast us adrift in moral, emotional, even existential uncertainties; the only reassurance they offer lies in the excellence of the fiction itself.
Read MoreA legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreA richly-detailed new history traces one Confederate volunteer infantry through the course of the Civil War
Read MoreAccording to one historian, the battle commemorated in a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci was the little-known birth-moment of the Renaissance
Read MoreThe Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreThe brutal 1980s war between Iran and Iraq gets a definitive new history
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreLong, long before Superman appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, human folklore was rife with super-beings. A new book takes a look at the more-than-human.
Read MoreLisa Eldridge, in her new book Face Paint, traces the long and surprisingly volatile history of makeup. Jane Shmidt reviews.
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Read MoreYears after the "New Atheism" heyday, a new book by an old hand takes up the atheist cause with renewed urgency.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2014, the so-called "Gamergate" controversy convulsed the world of online video gaming, raising issues of sexism and political correctness that still rage today. Phillip Lobo tries to look at the big picture.
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Read More"Always scribble, scribble, scribble!" the King joked to the historian, and we remember it still; Luciano Mangiafico looks at the remarkable life of Edward Gibbon.
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