Book Review: Theodora
/A lively and refreshingly blunt novel about one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - women in ancient history
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreThe OLM Quiz: Nobel Season!
/This month's OLM Quiz is an eerie meeting of the Nobel committee and Halloween
Read MoreOctober 2011 Issue
/from “Collective Tissue”by Katie Caron
Read MoreBook Review: Star Trek: Cast No Shadow
/A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions
Read MoreBook Review: Letters to Friends
/Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.
Read MoreBook Review: Animal
/A stunning - and miraculously hopeful - update to DK's legendary guide to animals
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Jenny
/Mallory meets Mike Hammer in the latest Eddie LaCrosse adventure
Read MoreInterview with Virginia Henley
/Romance author Virginia Henley talks with Open Letters about history, human nature, and a certain four-letter word
Read MoreBook Review: The Dark Earl
/The truth is stranger - and more welcome - than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley's latest.
Read MoreGraphic Novel: Justice
/Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.
Read MoreBook Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
/A new history of ancient Rome's greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: By Nightfall
/The paperback release of Michael Cunningham's latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Tutankhamun
/An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: TheThree Musketeers
/All for one and one straight to HBO2! Huzzah!
Read MoreWork in Progress
/Could you actually be hurting the environment by going green and moving to the suburbs? A new book champions that oft-maligned human invention: the big city.
Read MoreSeptember 2011 Issue
/"Do what the clouds do (for Charles Wright)"by Charles Matson Lume
Read MoreThe OLM Quiz: The Autumnin' Empire
/Enjoy the fall hues of this month's seasonally themed quiz
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Too Much to Know
/Now in paperback: a fascinating look at the intellectual Dark Ages (i.e. before Wikipedia)
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Thirteen Hours
/The murder of an American tourist in Cape Town propels this well-made thriller, the latest paperback from an internationally popular writer.
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