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Summer of Freedom by Oliver Hilmes " Open Letters Review
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (280+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World Translated by Jefferson Chase Now, in the summer of 1945, John wants to understand how Hitler was able to seduce an entire nation. Although John is not a Nazi himself,…...
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood by Rasheed Newson " Open Letters Review
1+ week, 1+ day ago (108+ words) An Arts & Literature Review There's Only One Sin in Hollywood No sophomore slump here, in other words. There's Only One Sin in Hollywood is every bit as solid and thoughtful and moving as its predecessor. Steve Donoghue'is a founding editor…...
Exit Stalin by Mark Smith " Open Letters Review
1+ week, 5+ day ago (102+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 By Mark B. Smith Characteristics which homo sovieticus lacked included a coherent sense of personhood and individual autonomy; the capacity to form beliefs, as they had spent their lives…...
A Nation Wrestles with God, edited by Ilan Stavans " Open Letters Review
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (244+ words) An Arts & Literature Review A Nation Wrestles with God: Edited by Ilan Stavans A great many of the voices ringing out from these pages are well worth hearing again, as in the case of the great Shawnee spiritual leader (and…...
Rasputin Swims the Potomac by Ben Fountain " Open Letters Review
2+ week, 4+ day ago (57+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Rasputin Swims the Potomac Tom Le Clair is the author of four critical books, eight novels, and has a free Substack entitled "Monsterpieces." Tom Le Clair is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. "His seventh--and…...
Auden by Peter Ackroyd " Open Letters Review
2+ week, 5+ day ago (184+ words) An Arts & Literature Review In 1938, for instance, Ackroyd tells us that Auden and his friend Christopher Isherwood were about the embark on a new joint writing venture: Likewise the death of Auden's mother in 1941: A witticism, appropriate or not, at…...
The Brothers Mc Kay by Craig Johnson " Open Letters Review
3+ week, 4+ day ago (262+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Craig Johnson opens his immensely enjoyable new book, The Brothers Mc Kay, with a charming story about how he ravenously consumed The Brothers Karamazov when he was a boy and then later told his patient father…...
Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey " Open Letters Review
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (245+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark Princeton University Press 2026 She toys with her characters, in other words. She stalks them across page after crisp, aloof prose. She makes sudden, decisive…...
Athens and Sparta by Adrian Goldsworthy " Open Letters Review
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (153+ words) An Arts & Literature Review Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece What he's talking about here is Classical Greece. The long 5th century, roughly from the fall of the last Athenian tyrant to either the birth or the death…...
The First Ghetto by Alexander Lee " Open Letters Review
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (85+ words) An Arts & Literature Review The First Ghetto: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism Steve Donoghue'is a founding editor of Open Letters Monthly. His book criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Conservative, The Spectator, The Wall Street…...