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Open Letters Monthly, May 2013
It looks as though April showers—and snowstorms—have finally brought a few May flowers. With or without showers, we also have the May issue of Open Letters Monthly, which comes with some choice buds and blossoms of its own: Rohan Maitzen gives us a review of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life… and then the review that [...]
Open Letters Monthly, April 2013
It recently occurred to me that at the institute of higher learning where I’m currently working on my MLS, there is a Fall semester, a Spring semester, and a Summer semester. The designation “Winter” is completely absent, and this is clearly no accident. Even though this isn’t one of the places that shows up regularly [...]
Open Letters Monthly, March 2013
March certainly came in like a lion this year, the kind that threatened to eat me whole, bones and all. But I’ve managed to make it as far as Spring Break, which is cause for celebration right there. And rather than get drunk and run around topless down in Florida, I’m hoping to catch up [...]
Open Letters Monthly, February 2013
January blew away in a puff of very cold air, and suddenly February, known around these parts as the F Month, is underway. Which means the new issue of Open Letters Monthly has come in like… well, like a freshly shorn beast: cold, but warm only a couple of days ago. Rohan Maitzen leads off [...]
Open Letters Monthly, January 2013
It’s a new week in a new month in a new year. But lest we be overwhelmed with so much newness, the Open Letters Monthly January issue is revisiting some of the more… let’s say established work, both on and off our collective radar. Stephen Akey takes a look at Thomas Hardy’s poetry for his [...]
Open Letters Monthly, December 2012
It’s the middle of December already. Honestly, all I can do is shake my head at that one. But we’re back in business here, just in time for all those festivities. And whether you’ve been naughty or nice or—one hopes—a little more hard to pin down than that, Open Letters Monthly has a neat gift [...]
Open Letters Monthly, November 2012
I’m not sure I’ve ever been so happy to see a new issue of Open Letters Monthly. In the first place, its presence in my house signified internet access, and therefore electricity and heat, which we had been doing without for nearly a week. But it also signified that time was, indeed, moving along. Usually [...]
Open Letters Monthly, October 2012
OK, it’s really fall now. The leaves are spinning around in the chilly breeze, the days are contracting, the stores are filling up with Christmas decorations. And the October issue of Open Letters Monthly is out—the perfect accompaniment to a little mulled cider and that bag of candy corn you bought “to get a jump [...]
Open Letters Monthly, September 2012
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Nobody moves to New York for the weather. The winters are harsh, the summers are harsh. So most of us have good reason to love spring and fall; by the time they roll around, we’re more than ready for a change. Hard to say [...]
Open Letters Monthly, August 2012
It’s the beginning of August, and everyone is watching the Olympics except me. But that’s OK… I have the August issue of Open Letters Monthly, which is positively Herculean in its breadth, depth, and general scope, and that’s really all I need. Unless there’s women’s ice hockey involved, I’d just as soon sit over here [...]
