Book 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 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 MoreBook Review: Quicksand
/A failed writer seizes on a most unlikely inspiration for his great book: the catastrophically unlucky life of his best friend
Read MoreBook Review: Those We Left Behind
/In the latest crime novel from Stuart Neville, two young killers are getting paroled - much too soon for the son of their victim
Read MoreBook Review: The Beautiful Bureaucrat
/A slim new novel works hard at being clever, with mixed results. Justin Hickey reviews "The Beautiful Bureaucrat"
Read MoreBook Review: The Murdstone Trilogy
/The author of several well-regarded but unprofitable novels about sensitive misfit boys turns to the industry's top money-maker: epic fantasy. Disaster promptly ensues.
Read MoreBook Review: Everland
/In 2012, a trio of Antarctic explorers re-traces the path of a doomed expedition from 1913
Read MoreBook Review: The Double Life of Liliane
/National Book Award-winner Lily Tuck's latest book attempts an experiment at dramatizing her memories of her early years
Read MoreBook Review: The Storms of War
/In historian Kate Williams' new novel, a wealthy family in England confronts the realities of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: A Clue to the Exit
/A sarcastic screenwriter learns he has only six months to live in this reprinted novel from Edward St. Aubyn from 2000
Read MoreBook Review: The Gates of Evangeline
/A mother grieving the loss of her own son investigates the 30-year-old disappearance of a powerful Southern family's little boy in this haunting debut
Read MoreRomancing the Convention
/Think romance novels aren’t worth taking seriously? The Romance Writers of America's annual convention brings together thousands of smart, self-aware readers and writers ready and able to prove you wrong.
Read MoreOn Venusberg by Anthony Powell
/Anthony Powell's name is synonymous with his twelve-volume behemoth "A Dance to the Music of Time." But he had a long and varied writing career, and his early novel Venusberg, Levi Stahl contends, is well worth searching out in the shade of "Dance."
Read MoreBoy, Interrupted
/For the protagonist of Jim Shepard's heartbreaking novel The Book of Aron it is terrible to be a poor Jew in anti-Semitic prewar Poland – but it is hardest of all to be a child, at the mercy of everyone else.
Read MoreKnow Your Name
/Game of Thrones is remarkably faithful to George R. R. Martin’s original epic series, except for one vital element: it transforms his subversive morality into conventional fantasy.
Read MoreBook Review: Mycroft Holmes
/A debut adventure starring the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes
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