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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
I am beginning to wonder if posterity will ever place Bohuslav Martinu where he justly belongs, as one who's sound world is at once distinctive and entirely approachable, the mark of a great composer.
Read MoreSnake expert Ted Levin argues in his captivating new book that the American rattlesnake is as misunderstood as it is miraculous.
Read MoreVeteran editor Terry McDonell writes a ribald memoir that's half storytelling and half tips of the trade
Read MoreIt’s always a good sign when a pianist is named as the editorial force behind a lieder recital, giving the enterprise both objective distance and intellectual rigour, as it does in these Schubert leider.
Read MoreOn the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.
Read MoreA gritty and gripping new history tells the story of the dawn of aerial warfare.
Read MoreA crippled young man in a forgotten hospital has armored himself against the rotten hand he's drawn in life - until he falls in love with a new patient.
Read MoreLike many other conductors, Bruno Walter tried his hand at composing. He was a famously reserved person, but does his music give anything away?
Read MoreThe heroine of Mary Robinette Kowal's enchanting new novel is doing her part for the WWI war effort - by debriefing the spirits of soldiers killed on the battlefield
Read MoreThe life of the main character in Nathan Hill's stunning debut novel is turned upside-down when the madwoman on the nightly news turns out to be his mother.
Read MoreA new book takes a revisionist look at the evolutionary history of the dog.
Read MoreA new book tells the history of ancient Egypt, from the mists of pre-history to the familiar tale of Cleopatra
Read MoreThe latest entry in the epic "Year's Best Science Fiction" series by editor Gardner Dozois features everything from Venusian monsters to telepathic food - with stops along the way for planetary warfare, quantum piracy, and the end of the world as we know it.
Read More"The Wonderments" allow the hero of Bill Broun's spellbinding debut novel Night of the Animals to talk to the animals in Regent's Park Zoo. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreAccording to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.
Read MoreDiane Arbus’s photographs are weird. Their subjects are weird. She herself was weird. A new exhibit takes us back to the origins of that strangeness –and asks what it says to us now.
Read MoreStuart Jeffries has written the first truly accessible account of the Frankfurt School. Robert Minto reviews.
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Read MoreEven today, women composers still struggle for recognition. Michael Johnson explores the life and work of the unjustly forgotten Germaine Tailleferre.
Read More2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Mesa Selimovic's modernist Yugoslavian masterpiece; Pedja Jurisic looks at Death and the Dervish today.
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