Article Archive for September 2011
Book Review: Star Trek: Cast No Shadow
A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions
Book Review: Letters to Friends
Sooner or later, Harvard’s glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.
Book Review: Animal
A stunning – and miraculously hopeful – update to DK’s legendary guide to animals
Interview with Virginia Henley
Romance author Virginia Henley talks with Open Letters about history, human nature, and a certain four-letter word
Book Review: The Dark Earl
The truth is stranger – and more welcome – than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley’s latest.
Graphic Novel: Justice
Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
A new history of ancient Rome’s greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.
Now in Paperback: By Nightfall
The paperback release of Michael Cunningham’s latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust
Now in Paperback: Tutankhamun
An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.
Splendide Mendax
The ethics of Wikileaks (and the antics of its mastermind, Julian Assange) continue to be the focus of controversy – and new books. Greg Waldmann takes a comprehensive look at the entire phenomenon.
Work in Progress
Could you actually be hurting the environment by going green and moving to the suburbs? A new book champions that oft-maligned human invention: the big city.
Kindly Words and Spectacles: The Art of Barbara Pym
Her merciless social scrutiny and crystal-perfect prose put Barbara Pym in the same league as Jane Austen — and yet she languishes on the edge of obscurity. We offer a re-appraisal — and a celebration.
Walk, Swim, Grumble
Olivia Laing’s digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf. Anne Fernald traces Laing’s meandering footsteps.
Satanic Maggots
Colonialism, feminism, witchcraft, the Lord of Darkness — themes such as these once made Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novels bestsellers. Now her charmingly subversive fiction is back in print.
Changeable Camelion
Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
Love at First Glans
Nicholson Baker’s provocative new book is an attempt at mainstream literary pornography, but does it suffer from the same performance anxiety as other novelistic efforts to depict sex?
It’s A Mystery: “This was either an accident, murder or an act of nature.”
A promising new series is launched with a thoroughly captivating, quirky mystery set well off the beaten path, in a tiny village in Southern Thailand.
Oblivion
One of the most significant voices of the Harlem Renaissance was Jessie Redmon Fauset — novelist, essayist, translator, and editor. She’s become obscured behind many of the male writers she published, but Joanna Scutts returns her poignant work to the main stage
Three for the Boys
Newly released in paperback are three Young Adult novels aimed at that sometimes-elusive reading demographic: teen boys.
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