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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
At the outbreak of the First World War, American writers flocked to Europe and headed for the Western Front in order to find their Muse - and to make some quick cash. A new book follows a handful of these earliest chroniclers
Read MoreIt'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 MoreCharacters never go wrong when their poor life choices make for fascinating reading. Kathleen Rooney supplies us with eight unmissable examples.
Read MoreFor two generations, the great American critic and man of letters Edmund Wilson has been instructing and delighting his readers - and inspiring some of them to become critics themselves.
Read MoreWe live in an age of outrage, yet one of our most egregious 'blood sports' escapes censure from the press. Since long before Hemingway, writers have been calling bullfighting exotic instead of barbaric -- what are they thinking?
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