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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Stephen Crane was born too late to go to war, but The Red Badge of Courage endures, not only as a story about war and what happens to people in war, but also as a remarkable experiment in literary modernism.
Read MoreSince his 1997 debut, novelist Daniel Kehlmann has been subverting the familiar comforts of science and society. Up next: his new book You Should Have Left.
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Read MoreBestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.
Read MoreA century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
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Read MoreBatman and Inception director Christopher Nolan's latest film is a sprawling WWII epic about the desperate heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Read MoreThis month sees Let the Dead Speak, a fine addition to Jane Casey’s compelling Detective Maeve Kerrigan series, and that special, oddball Monkeewrench crew returns for another delightful caper, Nothing Stays Buried.
Read MoreA stylish new neo-Victorian novel uncovers the mystery of a mythical serpent returned from the deeps.
Read MoreMahler's 5th Symphony has no shortage of fine interpretations. Two new recordings join them: one great and the other among the greatest of all time.
Read MoreA young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.
Read MoreWilliam Walton is very much an on-off composer. What’s remarkable about this recording is that the performance transcends his shortcomings.
Read MoreA debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.
Read MoreMany readers will find reflections of themselves in the nine stories that comprise Sarah Hall's newest collection.
Read MoreA mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.
Read MoreTogether, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his wife Julia Varady make the love in Schumann’s songs seem somehow less hopeless, and the hope in Mendelssohn less forlorn.
Read MoreThe famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.
Read MoreThe centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine
Read MoreTwo cello concertos, one upbeat, the other pessemistic, make a perfect companions on this new disc.
Read MoreA lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
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