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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
In two new mysteries - one the start of a new series, one the start of a new career - intricate plots take readers from Upstate New York to the Northern Cascades.
Read MoreHow many copies of Middlemarch does one person need? When the edition is as lovely as this, there's always room for one more.
Read MoreA name from a hotshot defense attorney's past comes back to haunt her when she discovers her ex is a suspect in a triple homicide
Read MoreThis week's CD features concertos by Neil Sedaka and Duke Ellington keyboardist Keith Emerson, and the only weak point is Rhapsody in Blue. Norman Lebrecht explains.
Read MoreAn out-of-work musician is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a legendary blues singer, but the legend hides some grim new realities
Read MoreA sweeping new overview of the sciences has big ambitions - and some odd sticking points
Read MoreThe little-known matriarch of modern British monarchy, the headstrong niece of King Henry VIII, is the subject of an absorbing new biography
Read MoreMisfits and battered believers fill the pages of Kathy Anderson's wise and funny debut
Read MoreDavid Hartwell
Read MoreGeorge Weidenfeld
Read MoreRumors and dark stories flew along the rutted dirt roads of colonial America, bearing tales that had virtually no basis in reality. A new book uses rumor to understand the rumormongers.
Read MoreMichel Tournier
Read MoreIn the wake of the strife and collapse of Slobodan Mlosevic's Yugoslavia, a large group of war criminals had to be hunted down and delivered for trial. A riveting new book tells the story.
Read MoreA powerful new book looks at the ideological connections between the Armenian Genocide and the Nazi death-camps that followed twenty years later
Read MoreThe Nazi slaughter of hundreds of thousands of European gypsies forms the grim backdrop to Lindsay Hawdon's debut novel
Read MoreIn the latest novel from hyper-prolific Brandon Sanderson, the vast mythos of his "Cosmere" is further expanded
Read MoreIn his first term as president, George Washington packed up and went on long, rattling tours of the new United States, to see the people and let them see him. A new book follows along.
Read MoreDavid Bowie
Read MoreAn American instructor in Bulgaria falls into a problematic infatuation with a rough-hewn rent-boy in Garth Greenwell's debut novel
Read MoreThe great Renaissance classic gets a spryly-translated new Norton edition
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