Open Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015 Continues
/The Open Letters Bestseller Feature continues, and the body-count rises!
Read MoreUnstable Atoms
/Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset is full of extraordinary encounters. For Kerry Clare, some of them are between her own past and present, her life and her (re)reading.
Read MoreEcology of the Imagination
/For over sixty years, the story of humanity's weird fascination with UFOs has been unfolding across nations and societies. A new book goes beyond easy mockery to ask some, er, probing questions.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Romans - Hits and Myths
/Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Suetonius wrote about the lives and loves of the founding rulers of the Roman Empire. Historian Tom Holland takes up the familiar story in his new book Dynasty.
Read MoreBorder Reports
/How do we become ourselves? For Vivian Gornick, wandering the city streets is one way to both ask and answer that question; for us, her book becomes a bracing guide to doing the same.
Read MoreIntersections
/a poem
Read MoreNot One to Eschew the Everyday
/From the tension between candor and formal presentation, Daniel Brown fashions the moments of discovery that comprise his new volume of poetry, What More?.
Read MoreSoaring Aloft
/Years after his death, Olivier Messiaen remains a divisive figure. Michael Johnson explores the controversial composer’s imprint on modern music.
Read MoreMussolini’s Thoroughfare
/a poem
Read MoreTurning Points: Jane Avril in Paris
/For the woman who became dancer Jane Avril, life was transformed when she realized that what had been called mental illness she could claim for herself as art.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “We live in a world in which paranoia is a requirement”
/Three nifty new thrillers star some reigning champs of the genre: Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher, and James Bond.
Read MoreBook Review: Quicksand
/A failed writer seizes on a most unlikely inspiration for his great book: the catastrophically unlucky life of his best friend
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
/A polite conversation by two intellectuals about an explosive subject: the rise of militant Islamic groups throughout the world, and the world's response
Read MoreBook Review: I Ching
/The ancient Chinese classic of divination gets a brisk new English-language translation
Read MoreBook Review: Washington
/The venerable sub-genre of the Washington, DC history gets a substantial new update
Read MoreBook Review: Apollo in the Grass
/A revelatory new volume brings to English-language readers a selection of the verses of St. Petersburg poet Aleksandr Kushner
Read MoreBook Review: Gallipoli
/The new entry in Oxford University Press' "Great Battles" series focuses on the long and potent afterlife of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Those We Left Behind
/In the latest crime novel from Stuart Neville, two young killers are getting paroled - much too soon for the son of their victim
Read MoreBook Review: Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism
/From the McCarthy era to the Watergate era and beyond, Mary McGrory ruled the Washington press corps, as a wonderful new book details
Read MoreBook Review: Gamelife
/Growing up in suburban Illinois, author Michael Clune discovered the world of gaming - and nothing was ever the same again
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