March 2008 Issue
/Photo by Kirsten Lewis
Read MoreAt the Old Vic
/A comprehensive new theater book, London Stage in the 20th Century, leads Honoria St. Cyr to reminisce on performances magnificent and disastrous staged in the world-famous West End.
Read MoreFebruary 2008 Issue
/"Hey... are you going to eat that?" by Rik Stavale
Read MoreGood and Bad Replications
/Studio interference severely compromised Ridley Scott’s visually stunning 1982 film Blade Runner. Now with Blade Runner: The Final Cut on DVD, Brian Kirker explores the remastering of a masterpiece.
Read MoreJanuary 2008 Issue
/"Leap of Faith" by Justin Lowery
Read MoreLab v. Library
/Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist attempts to reconcile the ageless turf war between the arts and sciences, but, as Lianne Habinek reports, Lehrer’s propositions may leave both sides feelings shortchanged.
Read MoreGladly Possessed
/Joy Division was post-punk at its ecstatic, abrasive best. Peter Law reviews Control, the soundtrack to the documentary that briefly brought the emblematic band back on the stage.
Read MoreDecember 2007 Issue
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Open Letters Monthly December 2007 Issue—Cover Photo "Northern Lights" by Christer Mattson
Read MoreNovember 2007 Issue
/“New York Night" by Jeffrey Eaton
Read MoreSeptember 2007 Issue
/"Sandcastle" by James A. Crossman
Read MoreA Very Singular Revolution
/Simon & Schuster is calling Michael Behe’s The Edge of Evolution a work of science. Steve Donoghue examines just how blasphemous a claim that is.
Read MoreNo Mercy for Martin
/Ah, that slave-trading John Hawkins, what a dreamy, dashing man! Steve Donoghue reviews Susan Ronald’s The Pirate Queen, an Elizabethan history a trifle more interested in romance than, um, what actually happened.
Read MoreWho Are the Smashing Pumpkins?
/Adam Golaski reviews Zeitgeist, the newest from the iconic band whose members are always changing and whose bickering and misery is our gain.
Read MoreAugust 2007 Issue
/“Let’s Swing” by Ugur Can
Read MoreWishful Thinking
/Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us has an irresistible premise: whatwould happen on Earth if human beings suddenly disappeared? SteveDonoghue cheerfully follows Weisman’s lead.
Read MoreEx Cathedra
/Ignazio de Vega conducts a careful exegesis of Pope Benedict XVI’sJesus of Nazareth and discovers in it a remarkable quality: a spiritof reconciliation
Read MoreJuly 2007 Issue
/Photo by Kristen Lewis
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