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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
It has been five years since Hans Werner Henze left us, and it is once again a pleasure to encounter these otherworldly pieces, rich in references to a forgotten age and its leisurely pace.
Read MoreThe bitter final weeks of the American Civil War form backdrop of Ralph Peters' dark, powerful latest novel.
Read MoreOne of the most outspoken critics of the official version of 9-11 now writes a wide-ranging assessment of the long-term consequences of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Read MoreAn impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreA new book contends that one particular year in the wake of the First World War changed the literary landscape forever.
Read MoreMarc-André Hamelin plays a piece, tainted by controversy, that Morton Feldman wrote as an act of homage to Bunita Marcus, who accused him of theft and sexual abuse.
Read MoreThe lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.
Read MoreThe unsinkable Maggie Hope is on the case again in Susan Elia MacNeal's latest historical whodunit - this time set in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Read MoreA key turning-point in the Battle of the Pacific gets a richly anecdotal new history.
Read MoreA ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreA new release from Opera Rara usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere 160 years ago. This package, though, is different: a pair of debut releases by two fast-rising singers, soprano and tenor, mingling well-known arias with the fairly obscure.
Read MoreThe first installment in a projected series about a wily Viking warrior, his leader - and the women in his life
Read MoreWas the death of literary theorist Roland Barthes in 1980 the result of a simple traffic accident - or part of a deeper plot? Laurent Binet's new novel takes readers into the weird world of ginned-up semiology.
Read MoreAndrew Wilson's new novel dramatizes the real-life ten-day disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie nearly a century ago - and adds a touch of murder.
Read MoreDaniel Barenboim's new recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius is the best-sounding on record. But is it the best-played?
Read MoreA new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
Read MoreThe doomed valor of the small, scrappy US Asiatic Fleet in the Pacific Theater, often overlooked in WWII histories, now gets an elaborate new chronicle.
Read MoreAncient gods and tree-born civilizations form the backdrop for Thoraiya Dyer's fascinating fantasy debut. Justin Hickey reviews Crossroads of Canopy.
Read MoreElfriede Jelinek’s Charges is a response to the European refugee crisis, but can fiction address reality by stripping it of all its details?
Read MoreSteve Danziger interviews Jessie Chaffee about her much-praised debut novel Florence in Ecstasy.
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