Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
There is so much Tudor fiction in our world today that no one but the Tudors themselves could justify the extent of it. Even Steve Donoghue can’t read it all, but he has read more of it than is healthy, and he reports back in this installment of his “Year With the Tudors.”
Read MoreAn excerpt and dissection of Steve Donoghue’s Tudor novel Boy King
Read MoreThough the American Civil War produced more and better books and writers than any single event in our country’s history, Bruce Catton is the greatest of its 20th century tellers. In this regular feature, Steve Donoghue tours the breathtaking work of an unfairly set-aside annalist.
Read MoreThis is a place for all of my writing about books.