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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
In 1503, the city of Florence commissioned two artists to paint the walls of their city hall - two men named Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. A new book assesses the after-effects of this greatest of all artistic competitions.
Read MoreBernard Cornwell's Saxon Tales continue with a lean, gripping tale of blood and armor
Read MoreA easily-accessible new guidebook to our home solar system
Read MoreThe revamped Man of Steel embarks on a new series of adventures in Action Comics
Read MoreThe scout for a fur-trapping party in 1823 is mauled by a bear and left for dead - but he doesn't die, which is very bad news for the fur-trapping company in Michael Punke's super-effective novel
Read MoreJames Laughlin started a publishing imprint, New Directions, by selling what would become a syllabus of Modern writing from the trunk of his car.
Read MoreDavid Dickson's comprehensively researched, readable book details the long and complicated history of Dublin
Read MoreA new history presents a history of 20th-Century American radical evangelism that will go down very well on the Liberty University campus
Read MoreThe bloodiest American encounter of the Second World War took place in a vast and icebound forest; a sprawling new history tells the story of the Battle of the Bulge
Read MoreAn enormous, bad-tempered horse tramples to death the wife of its aristocratic owner - but Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard comes to suspect foul play in Barbara Cleverly's new mystery
Read MoreHe was ugly, ill-dressed, and eccentrically fond of dogs - but he was also the most experienced military man in the American colonies, restlessly chaffing under the command of George Washington. He was General Charles Lee, and a wonderful new book tells his story.
Read MoreLong before he would be venerated as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer had a really, really bad year. An engaging new book tells the story of how he coped - and the great work that followed.
Read MoreA new book looks at the writings of Cicero, Sallust, and Horace to understand the mind of their times.
Read MoreIn 1871, thousands of aggrieved Parisians banded together to create an independent socialist community lodged inside their home city, and it functioned as a living dream - until it was brutally destroyed. A new book tells the story of the Paris Commune.
Read MoreAn older Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise-A voyage to the edge of the Federation to help two warring planets make peace - and there they encounter a long-lost figure from their past
Read MoreA pretty new anthology dips into the vast Chinese poetic tradition
Read MoreA revelatory new book explores the uneasy dealings the Third Reich had with the thousands of Muslims who suddenly found themselves under Nazi rule
Read MoreA fiery new history seeks to reclaim the lost honor of both Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
Read MoreWhen the chaos of the First World War swept over the Middle East, it disrupted patterns of life that had been steady for centuries - and left conflicts that roil still today
Read MoreShe's convinced they're married; he's adamant they're not. Let the Regency games begin!
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