From the Editors
Open Letters is dedicated to the proposition that no writing which reviews the arts should be boring, back-patting, soft-pedaling, or personally compromised. We’ve all had the experience of reading a review that sparkled—one that combined an informed, accessible examination of its quarry with gamesome, intelligent, and even funny commentary. These are the pieces we tell our friends about and then vigorously debate.
Our mission here is to provide you with a wide variety of such reviews every month.
Here you’ll find engaged, enthusiastic criticism and commentary displaying our passion for art across a broad spectrum of forms. Here you’ll find opinions based on our belief that there’s no room in the world for either pretension or pandering, and that the lions of art can fall flat just as great works can emerge from previously unknown corners.
Because we envision an aesthetic community taking shape here every month, we invite your responses, your spirited dissensions, and certainly your contributions to what we hope will be an ongoing process of critical examination of these creations that give our lives so much meaning.
John Cotter—Poetry Editor
Steve Donoghue—Managing Editor
Sam Sacks—Fiction Editor
Greg Waldmann—Political Editor
Bryn Haworth—London Editor
Stacey Robarge—Webmaster
Adam Golaski—Contributing Editor
Joanna Scutts—Contributing Editor
Lianne Habinek—Contributing Editor
Thomas J. Daly—Contributing Editor
Phillip A. Lobo—Contributing Editor
John G. Rodwan, Jr.—Contributing Editor
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