Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead Open Letters Monthly is live for May, and as usual, we have a bumper-crop of fascinating stuff for your delectation! Our poetry editor John Cotter returns from the wilds of higher academia to grace the site once again, this time with a jaunty, eminently quotable review of the new volume by August Kleinzhaler. Sam Sacks, our fiction editor, turns in a fascinating review of the new work by Peter Matthiessen – coupled, as always, with a thorough retrospective on the course of Matthiessen’s fiction over the years. Megan Doll writes on the new Siri Hustvedt; Thom Daly writes on the Congress of Vienna; Carolyn Grantham writes on those wacky blogs and the people who write about them; Chad Reynolds writes on the latest offerings from Dalkey Archive; Karen Vanuska writes on the new Jeanette Winterson – as wide a variety of literary topics as you’ll find anywhere, online or in the print world. John G. Rodwan, Jr. digs up a little-known incident from the youth of George Orwell in this month’s One Encounter; Amelia Glaser offers an original plea directly to the son of Lolita author Nabokov; and I take you all on a tour of a Roman poet you’ve probably never heard of. Elsewhere on the poetry front we’ve got National Book Award-winning poet Clayton Eshleman joining us again, and the next installment of Adam Golaski’s beautiful and otherworldly Green

. And our wicked Quiz returns to bedevil you with pointless trivia!

All this plus a nifty photo from our steadfast (and, apparently, multi-talented) regular contributor Lianne Habinek – how can you go wrong? So pull up a chair, bookmark us, tell two friends, and then jump right in and join the fun – and don’t forget to tell us what you think!

                                                                                                                            –Steve Donoghue 

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