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Open Letters Monthly
''Open Letters Monthly'' or ''Open Letters Monthly: an Arts and Literature Review'', was an online arts and culture magazine. It was founded in 2007 by Sam Sacks, John Cotter, and Steve Donoghue, and published its last issue in 2017. It features long-form criticism of books, films, and art exhibits as well as original artwork and poetry. Critical reception In 2007, M. A. Orthofer of the complete review called ''Open Letters Monthly'' "the best new on-line literary periodical out there." In 2010, blogger, author, and critic Maud Newton noted that "''Open Letters'' has been doing really great stuff for a long time." Daniel E. Pritchard of ''The Critical Flame'' describes that the ''Open Letters Monthly'' "presents a primer on some of the best internet reviews and criticism available." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Newton
Rebecca "Maud" Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas in 1971. She was raised in Miami, Florida. Writing Newton first came to attention as the founder of an early litblog. Her essays, critiques and short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including ''The New York Times Magazine'', '' Esquire'', The Wall Street Journal, ''Time'', '' Harper's Magazine'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', '' Harper's Bazaar'', ''Catapult'', ''Bookforum'', ''Narrative Magazine'', ''The Awl'', ''Tin House'', and ''Humanities''. Her first book, the non-fiction ''Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation'', was published by Random House in 2022. Personal life Newton was born in Dallas and raised in a fundamentalist household in Miami by an evangelical mother and racist father. She attended college and law school at the University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
