Archive
The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Time and again in the history of life, environmental pressures and biological systems combine to produce the same adaptations in wildly different species and epochs. It's called convergent evolution, and Simon Conway Morris has written its grand opera.
Read MoreJust in time for America's Independence Day, the Library of America presents its newest production: a two-volume collection of some of the pamphlets that so inflamed the colonial population in the decade leading up to the Revolution
Read MoreIn Wednesday Martin's now-infamous scathing account, we learn the appalling personal details of the wives of Manhattan's rich and famous
Read MoreA brutal assassination in 1537 changed the course of Florentine history, and eleven years later, the assassin was himself murdered. Case closed? A fascinating new book thinks not!
Read MoreTens of thousands of years ago, humans domesticated canines and thereby changed the dynamics of life on earth - a change humanity then continued by domesticating other species. A fascinating new book details the process
Read MoreMillions of years ago, hominids began walking upright - thus expanding their field of view and freeing their hands for mischief and took-making. A new book celebrates the result.
Read MoreNow in paperback in the US: the companion book to the popular BBC science program hosted by physicist Brian Cox
Read MoreJames Horner
Read MoreByron the poet was also Byron the prolific correspondent and diarist, as a generous and learned new collection amply demonstrates
Read MoreFor a key interval in 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany at its peak - and that familiar story of determination and ultimate victory is the subject of Robin Prior's new book
Read MoreHow did the dynamics of kingship apply to a distant and socially maladroit little creature like King Charles I? A terrific new book looks at personality and power in the Stuart era
Read MoreAt the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story
Read MoreWhile America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story
Read MoreA new memoir about sleeplessness - and the wired culture that seems to encourage it
Read MoreNow in paperback: a new rumination on the nature of the post-wildlife world mankind has built
Read MoreNow in paperback, a groundbreaking study of Winston Churchill's life as a bestselling author, speechwriter, and speech performer
Read MoreIn time for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo comes the concluding volume in Rory Muir's magisterial biography of the battle's victor, the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreThe enigmatic and compelling aristocratic author Vita Sackville-West is the subject of an approachable new biography
Read MoreA group of rescuers in Southern California treat the most delicate patients imaginable: injured hummingbirds
Read MoreA genuinely thought-provoking new work of science-writing probes the nature - and even the value - of noise
Read More
Powered by Squarespace.