At Open Letters Monthly / Likefire Blog, a review of Millions Contributor Sonya Chung’s novel Long for This World.

What’s with the DeLillo pile-on? we asked last week, semi-coherently. Open Letters Monthly provides an astute and meticulous answer in its monthly covering-the-coverage feature, “Peer Review.”

Nice MovesFrom Elisa Gabbert’s review of the poetry collection PERSONATIONSKIN at Open Letters Monthly: I included “Autobiographia”—the first poem in Karl Parker’s debut collection, Personationskin—three times on a list of 41 “move...

Over at the handsomely redesigned Open Letters Monthly, yours truly weighs in on William T. Vollmann.

       The February issue of Open Letters Monthly is now available online.        Among the pieces: Greg Waldmann's review of Joris Luyendijk's way under-reviewed People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East.        The Februa...

The January issue of Commentary is out, and Philip Roth’s novella The Humbling is reviewed by Sam Sacks, editor of Open Letters Monthly. I am sick with envy. I had begged for first shot at Roth’s latest, but my reputation as an unre...

Open Letters Monthly has relaunched with a smart-looking new site and three new blogs: Like Fire, stevereads, and the Walt Whitman-focused Whitman’s Blog.

       The January issue of Open Letters Monthly is now available online -- note also that they've redesigned the site.

Along with the dreaded switch to Daylight Wastings Time, the first of the month brings new issues of Open Letters Monthly and N1BR. Between the two of them, you can find, among other things, reviews of Where the Wild Things Are, J.M...

       Among October issues of online periodicals now available is Open Letters Monthly -- 'The Bestseller Issue', where, among many other things, they "dig into the ten bestselling novels in the land as of September 6, 2009" -- and...

In the new issue of Open Letters, “Sam Sacks tours the city with E.L. Doctorow, Colm Tóibín, and Colum McCann.”

       September/fall issues of Bookforum and Open Letters Monthly are now available online: loads of material that should keep you busy for a while....

       Among the June issues of online publications now available are Bookslut (the new editor off to a good start by getting the month's issue up on the first already) and Open Letters Monthly -- so packed that I don't even mind th...

In Open Letters Monthly, Karen Vanuska reviews Landscape in Concrete, which is a WWII-novel that opens with the line “There is a plague called man.” Fittingly, the protagonist is a sufferer of PTSD: It is an unquiet mind that turns ...

The February issue of the always worthwhile Open Letters Monthly is now available online (though it is a bit non-fiction coverage heavy for our tastes this month ...).

After reading The Children's Hospital, I quickly concluded that I should pay attention to each new book published by Chris Adrian, so I took note when he published a collection of short stories last year. In Open Letters Monthly, Jo...

The poetry-heavy January issue of Open Letters Monthly is now available.

Open Letters Monthly has a nice look at the recent reissue of Art Spiegelman’s earliest work, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&! In her review, Sharon Fulton is very impressed that the new edition features Spiegelman...

Sunday, November 23, 2 pm Boston Public Library Copley Branch Katie Smith Milway , One Hen Monday, November 24, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith An Evening with Open Letters Monthly w/ Nicholas Way Gomez, Matthew Klane, and editor John Cot...

Always worth a look, the November issue of Open Letters Monthly is now available.