Fresh Fellow Travelers
/Coyotes have successfully infiltrated almost every niche of the American landscape and folklore. Justin Hickey tours Coyote America by Dan Flores.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Summer Reading 2012
/As the haze and heat of summer kick into full swing, the folk of Open Letters break out their annual Summer Reading recommendations!
Read MoreBook Review: The Gene
/A generous new book describes the history - and the momentous potential - of genetic research
Read MoreKindling the Mob
/A new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.
Read MoreClosing the Buffet
/A fascinating new book reveals the wonders that are visible once humans stop thinking of fish as merely food with fins.
Read MoreRabbit Trails into History: An interview with translator Christiana Hills
/Steve Danziger talks with Christina Hills, a "cruciverbalist" translator from the controversial Oulipo school.
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 MoreSocrates of Amazonia
/What exactly is a philosopher? As it turns out, that question may have more than one answer. Robert Minto shares the exciting results of Justin Smith's new history.
Read MoreWhy Don’t You Both Shut Up?
/In the United States in the last few decades, issues of free speech have drifted closer and closer to the heart of American life. A new book analyzes a right too many Americans take for granted.
Read MoreThe Devil in the Hills
/A new book about Primo Levi’s morally questionable acts as a Partisan can’t cut him down to size: his own self-critique makes that superfluous.
Read MoreBook Review: Bach's Major Vocal Works
/Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's most glorious music is also some of the most intimidating to modern audiences; a new book introduces readers to the masses and oratorios of the master.
Read MoreBook Review: The Next Pandemic
/A lively account of life on the front lines in the fight against the world's worst diseases.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Manhattan Night
/A terrific ten-year-old noir novel is given a new paperback edition on the occasion of its translation to the Hollywood screen.
Read MoreBook Review: Otto Binder
/He helped to create some of the staple characters of the comic book world, and yet he's unknown outside the industry. A spirited biography tells the story of Otto Binder.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Darwyn Cooke
/Editor Zach Rabiroff revisits the great masterpiece of the late Darwyn Cooke
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Read MoreA Period of Most Powerful Transition
/In his world-ranging new popular history Heyday, Ben Wilson looks at the Great Exhibition of 1851 as a focal point of the 19th-century grand dream of commerce and culture. Zach Rabiroff reviews.
Read MoreAnswer in Paradox
/An intimate new biography gives us a Charlotte Brontë for our times - and raises questions about the entanglement of life and art.
Read MoreOn Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah
/In his essay on a new reprint of Edwin O'Connor's great and indispensable novel of old-style American ward politics, Jack Beatty introduces readers to the serious comedy of The Last Hurrah.
Read MoreRequiem with Yellow Butterflies: The World Mourns García Márquez
/How do we memorialize a literary titan who shaped his own mythology? The story of legendary writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez gained its protean final chapter in the wave of obituaries after his death in 2014.
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