Open Letters Review

An arts & literature review. Peppery commentary on the arts & letters of the day.

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Steve Donoghue reviews a new history of ancient Rome’s great enemy, Carthage: A New History by Eve MacDonald, out from @wwnorton:

https://t.co/RHVNPXiI73

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Steve Donoghue reviews a new translation of the classic of Stoicism, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian, out from @LiverightPub:

https://t.co/xdg1g9Wyrw

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Nonfiction - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/fSMhgbsi3t

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Fiction - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/5OSa8G9aQ6

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Worst Books of 2025 with this year's Worst Nonfiction - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/0EK9leImIM

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue kicks off his Worst Books of 2025 with this year's Worst Fiction - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/BV3WfWN0yK

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Biography - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/YFZpCqHGsK

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's History - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/HeedDJeyVS

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Open Letters Review editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Thrillers - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/r0PolN8gyv

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Open Letters editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Romance - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/CE857hQvU2

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Open Letters editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Debut Fiction - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/kU95Yz4lTN

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Open Letters editor Steve Donoghue continues his Best Books of 2025 with this year's Literature in Translation - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/URqpmnXGFW

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Open Letters editor Steve Donoghue kicks off his Best Books of 2025 with this year's reprints - see them now at his Substack, Stevereads:

https://t.co/NQj6rKWytz

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Steve Donoghue reviews a biographical deep dive into the three key players at Gettysburg, Three Roads to Gettysburg by Tim McGrath, out from Caliber:

https://t.co/f3CuUIWHc4

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Gabrielle Stetcher Woodward reviews memoir from the author Susan Orlean, Joyride, out from Avid Reader Press:

https://t.co/z7Sk9DT7JY

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Steve Donoghue reviews a new one-volume history of Rome, from Romulus and Remus to the fall of Constantinople, The Romans by Edward Watts, out from @BasicBooks:

https://t.co/Tqgcd0GuN2

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Jim Abbiati reviews King Sorrow by Joe Hill, out from William Morrow:

https://t.co/QJzqFmvLtg

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Janet Wertman reviews The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman, out from Atlantic Monthly Press:

https://t.co/gh0yW486dc

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Hannah Joyner reviews previously unpublished stories that illuminate the literary development of the author of an American classic, The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee, out from Random House:

https://t.co/RpNmbYeerf

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Steve Donoghue reviews a new look at the ambitions of a newborn British empire, The Sun Rising by Anna Whitelock, out from Viking:

https://t.co/YHANJdvJo1