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Open Letters Monthly Archive Feature: Second Glance
Ryszard Kapuściński has courted controversy for the poetic licenses in his groundbreaking works of history. But it's those leaps of imagination and sympathy that make his 2001 book on Africa, The Shadow of the Sun, a lasting work of art.
Read MoreHe may not have anything new to tell us today, but as Spencer Lenfield demonstrates, Gilbert Highet's friendly, engaging pedagogy is still rare enough to keep him relevant.
Read MoreMcGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, RFK, JFK, LBJ--these were the best and the brightest of David Halberstam's landmark study of American politics during the Vietnam War. The book is now 40 years old and its lessons are as vital as ever.
Read MoreA rich, beautiful, but sadly neglected historical masterpiece: Hilda Prescott's The Man on a Donkey is the War and Peace of the English Reformation
Read MoreIn books such as "Live Alone and Like It" Marjorie Hillis preached independence and practical style to "live-aloner" working women of the 1930s and beyond
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