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December 31, 2007

January 2008 Issue

December 31, 2007/ Open Letters Monthly

"Leap of Faith" by Justin Lowery

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December 31, 2007/ Open Letters Monthly/
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January 2008
December 31, 2007

Green

December 31, 2007/ Adam Golaski

Open Letters continues its serialization of Adam Golaski’s innovative translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with this, the second installment.

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December 31, 2007/ Adam Golaski/
Poetry
Adam Golaski, January 2008, Poetry
December 31, 2007

Lab v. Library

December 31, 2007/ Lianne Habinek

Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist attempts to reconcile the ageless turf war between the arts and sciences, but, as Lianne Habinek reports, Lehrer’s propositions may leave both sides feelings shortchanged.

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December 31, 2007/ Lianne Habinek/
Monthly Cover, Science & Technology
January 2008, Lianne Habinek, science
December 31, 2007

Gladly Possessed

December 31, 2007/ Peter Law

Joy Division was post-punk at its ecstatic, abrasive best. Peter Law reviews Control, the soundtrack to the documentary that briefly brought the emblematic band back on the stage.

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December 31, 2007/ Peter Law/
Monthly Cover, Arts & Life
January 2008, music
December 31, 2007

When You See Me, You Know Me

December 31, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

As Steve Donoghue writes, the epitome of what a monarch can be was embodied in the massive form of Henry VIII, and not a year passes without another biographer struggling to tackle the man and his legacy. 2007 was no different….

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December 31, 2007/ Steve Donoghue/
Keeping up with the Tu..., Politics & History
history, January 2008, Keeping up with the tudors, Steve Donoghue
December 31, 2007

Catalog Reading

December 31, 2007/ Sam Sacks

Sam Sacks reviews Michael Dirda’s Classics for Pleasure, an old-fashioned reading guide that wants desperately to believe it hasn’t been made altogether anachronistic by the Internet, that elephant in the corner of the library.

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December 31, 2007/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, January 2008, literary criticism, Sam Sacks
December 31, 2007

I Hope This Hasn’t Hurt You

December 31, 2007/ Samuel Wharton

A poem by Samuel Wharton

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December 31, 2007/ Samuel Wharton/
Poetry
January 2008, Poetry
December 31, 2007

The Life of the Tail Gunner

December 31, 2007/ Joanna Scutts

In her new novel Day, A.L. Kennedy places a World War II veteran on the set of a war movie; unfortunately, Joanna Scutts writes, the characters of her book are not much more dimensional than the movie set.

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December 31, 2007/ Joanna Scutts/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, January 2008, Joanna Scutts, literary criticism
December 31, 2007

Absent Friends: Between the River and the Mountains

December 31, 2007/ Steve Donoghue

In our regular feature, Steve Donoghue revisits Giovanni Guareschi’s Little World of Don Camillo, an eternally comforting fictional oasis set in the heart of the Cold War.

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December 31, 2007/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Absent Friends
Absent Friends, fiction, January 2008, literary criticism, Steve Donoghue
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