Book Review: Johnny Alucard
/After fifteen years, the fantastic "Anno Dracula" series continues
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Cosmos
/A quarter-century after its first appearance, a beloved popular-science classic gets a new reprint
Read MoreBook Review: The Libertine
/A new volume from the mighty Abbeville Press will warm your cold, withered heart if anything still can!
Read MoreBook Review: 21st Century Science Fiction
/A legendary editor assembles the leading lights of science fiction for the new century - he hopes.
Read MorePeter O'Toole
/Open Letters mourns the death of enchanting rogue Peter O’Toole.
Read MoreBook Review: We All Sleep in the Same Room
/There's more than mere misery in the expertly-managed passage of events in Paul Rome's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Venetians
/A quick-paced new history of not just of the city of Venice but of the remarkable men and women who strutted across its stage during the long centuries of its life
Read MoreBook Review: Barry Powell's Iliad
/A life-long love of the Classics is distilled into a new translation of Homer's Iliad
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Read MoreBook Review: My Mistake
/A life-long writer and editor looks back on his life
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington, The Path to Victory
/A massive new biography serves to remind us that war and politics were always intricately connected in the life of the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreComics: Thor - War of the Pantheons
/One of the first volumes of a new color reprint series from Marvel Comics features some high-flying adventures by the summer's superhero star, the mighty Thor!
Read MoreBook Review: Heir to the Empire City
/Fresh from chasing horse-thieves in wild Dakota territories, a rail-tough Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City to face bandits of quite another sort - the Tammany Hall sort. A lean new history tells the great story.
Read MoreMarc Chagall: Between Paris and Vitebsk
/Perhaps the strangest things about the paintings of Marc Chagall is how frequently they feature Christian iconography. But the habit speaks less to a tension in Chagall's Judaism, Ivan Kenneally suggests, than his attempt to universalize his people's suffering.
Read MoreBook Review: Musorgsky & His Circle
/Five remarkable men came together in 19th century St. Petersburg to challenge each other, compete with each other, inspire each other, and encourage each other - and some quite remarkable music resulted
Read MoreBook Review: Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
/The near- infinite abundance of the Internet may seem incredibly alluring, but in his new book David Mikics argues that it's eating away at our ability to appreciate fully what we read. He offers rules and admonitions, as you might expect
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Jack Merridew
/The open frontier of self-publishing attracts a wide variety of pioneers - fiercely individual storytellers who for one reason or another have chosen a different path to realizing their writing dreams. One such pioneer is Jack Merridew, who at age 20 is already the author of two self-published works of fiction - and a successful YouTube creator as well. Open Letters talks with him about the brave new world of promoting your own dreams.
Read MoreBook Review: Stay
/It's an act of aggression in which the victim is the perpetrator, and it's a crime for which the criminal cannot be punished: it's suicide, and statistics show we're in the middle of an epidemic of it. A thoughtful new book lays out the case for sticking around.
Read MoreBook Review: American Statecraft
/American diplomats and Foreign Service workers travel for America, negotiate for America, cheerlead for America, and sometimes die for America - a magnificent new book gives them the sweeping historical account they've always deserved.
Read MoreBook Review: The Everything Store
/A new book by Brad Stone on Amazon.com: does it make nice with the online Goliath, or brandish a slingshot?
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