Book Review: The Queen's Rival
/A novel about the woman who came heart-breakingly close to founding a new Tudor dynasty.
Read MoreBook Review: Dance of the Furies
/A provocative and fascinating new book challenges what we think we know about the causes and nature of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: Boswell's London Journal
/In his early 20s, James Boswell kept a journal of his riotous, entertaining life in London, and it's now in an updated version from Penguin Classics.
Read MoreBook Review: Wolfsangel
/Norse saga and werewolf yarn combine in the debut of a fast-paced, smart, and violent new fantasy series.
Read MoreBook Review: Government in the Clouds
/The rabble-rousing jeremiad is alive and well in the self-publishing world, as this new anti-politician broadside demonstrates!
Read MoreBook Review: The Scar-Crow Men
/The dashing, omni-competent Will Swyfte returns to swash some further buckles in Mark Chadbourn's new alternate-history fantasy novel.
Read MoreMary Chesnut's Diary
/The famous Civil War diarist, whose eloquent pessimism was given voice in Ken Burns's "The Civil War", receives a much-needed repackaging by Penguin Classics
Read MoreThe Tudor Secret, by C.W. Gortner
/C.W. Gortner kicks off his potboiling Tudor chronicles with a fast-paced novel of conspiracy (and, of course, shrouded paternity) in the court of Edward VI
Read MoreReview of It's Superman!, by Tom De Haven
/A favorite from the thriving genre of fiction based on the Man of Steel is reissued by Ballantine Books
Read Morefrom "8 Equations"
/Pi Burned AlphabeticsAtomic Snowstorms in Left Handed Corners of the MindCircumference of Infinity & Where it Has Gotten Us
Read Moretumultuous atmospheric spaces
/"I learned about 'letting go', painting over areas in a piece that I might have loved at first (which often happens in my process, some of my first marks are my most adored), but which no longer worked." A conversation with Carol Browning and Karen Roehl
Read MoreApril 2011 Issue
/"Thicket" by Karen Roehl
Read MoreQuiz - March 2011
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Out of Sorts
/Books have been with us for thousands of years, and books about books for very nearly that long. The world of books teems with themes, and in the latest massive Oxford Companion, that world receives a bestiary with hopes of being definitive.
Read MoreBodies in Space
/Isaac Newton wrote about bodies at rest and bodies in motion - but he never got around to bodies that want to rip you apart with their tentacles and feast on your steaming entrails! A classic video game gets a macabre and highly detailed sequel.
Read MoreMarch 2011 Issue
/"Celestial Navigation" by Peter Illig and Rebecca Vaughan
Read MoreOpen Letters Monthly – February 2011 – Quiz
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Learning to Read Perfume: A Talk with Chandler Burr
/Our poet of perfume and the curator of the brand new Center of Olfactory Art discuss why perfumes demand to be smelled and why "perfume is the only art form in which Americans are more illiterate than poetry."
Read MoreFebruary 2011 Issue
/"4 Men at a Desk" by Addie Langford
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