Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
In a trend that’s continued for three years now, I read more new books this year than in any previous year of my life, a very drastic change from the many years when I read virtually no new books at all, and a big enough change even from as recent as ten years ago, when […]
Read MoreDecember begins here in Boston as all other months now do, with bright sunlight, shirtsleeve weather, and not the smallest hint of wind or moisture – like Tempe, only with a Dunkin’ Donuts every 500 feet. But December of course has one distinctive feature: it signals the end of another year, the swift winding-down of […]
Read MoreAn older Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise-A voyage to the edge of the Federation to help two warring planets make peace - and there they encounter a long-lost figure from their past
Read MoreHugely talented biographer Andrew Roberts has written a big biography of Napoleon Bonaparte - but when it comes to such a well-known figure, are readers in danger of fatigue de bataille?
Read MoreThis is a place for all of my writing about books.