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I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa — Open Letters Review
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (94+ words) An Arts & Literature Review I Give You My Silence By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Adrian Nathan West Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2026 Steve Donoghue'is a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly. His book criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The…...
The Roman World War by Giusto Traina — Open Letters Review
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (133+ words) An Arts & Literature Review The Roman World War: From the Ides of March to Cleopatra's Death Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise Princeton University Press 2026 Its silly nomenclature overreach aside, The Roman World War is a slim but very readable account of…...
Hubris by David Stuttard — Open Letters Review
1+ week, 1+ day ago (159+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2026 Readers can forgive historian David Stuttard his boyish enthusiasm when he exclaims, in his new book Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon,…...
Lucien by J. R. Thornton — Open Letters Review
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (158+ words) An Arts & Literature Review By J. R. Thornton Of course having some fun by endless self-indulgence or by badly disappointing people who've only ever supported you is, in fact, so awful, but it's fairly clear in Lucien where your sympathies are supposed…...
The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz — Open Letters Review
2+ week, 4+ day ago (246+ words) An Arts & Literature Review The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz She came out of the trance on a crashing wave of adrenaline that flooded her veins with a euphoric sense of relief. Once again, she had survived…...
The Breath of the Gods by Simon Winchester — Open Letters Review
2+ week, 5+ day ago (201+ words) An Arts & Literature Review The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of Wind Hollywood used to have a decided fondness for tumbleweed imagery during the heyday of the Western movie.In today's world with the American West no…...
Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives by Asier Larramendi & Marco P. Ferretti — Open Letters Review
2+ week, 5+ day ago (243+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives: A 60 Million Year Journey By Asier Larramendi & Marco P Ferretti Princeton University Press 2026 As mentioned, the authors don't hesitate to geek out all over their subject, losing sight with charming regularity…...
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel — Open Letters Review
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1021+ words) Son of Nobody by Yann Martel'Open Letters Review An Arts & Literature Review In Life of Pi, Yann Martel's bestseller and surprise (to me) Booker winner, the castaway protagonist/narrator, after weeks in a lifeboat with a tiger, wishes he had…...
The Halter by Darby McDevitt — Open Letters Review
3+ week, 4+ day ago (123+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Diversion Books, February 2026 The power of Gods in the hands of teenagers. What could go wrong? He had a single bristling eyebrow that ran from temple to temple and his five o'clock shadow looked like someone…...
Chosen Land by Matthew Avery Sutton — Open Letters Review
4+ week, 19+ hour ago (89+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity By Matthew Avery Sutton Steve Donoghue'is a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly. His book criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Conservative, The…...