Open Letters Monthly is an online arts and culture magazine. It was founded in 2007 by Sam Sacks, John Cotter, and Steve Donoghue. It features long-form criticism of books, films, and art exhibits as well as original artwork and poetry.

Critical and popular reception

In 2007, M. A. Orthofer of the complete review

Complete review

complete review is a literary website founded in March 1999. It is best known for reviews of novels in English translation, in particular drawing attention to otherwise neglected contemporary works from around the world, but there are also reviews of classics, non-fiction, drama and poetry...

 called Open Letters Monthly "the best new on-line literary periodical out there." In 2010, blogger, author, and critic Maud Newton

Maud Newton

Rebecca "Maud" Newton is a writer, blogger, book reviewer and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Miami, Florida. Newton was raised in a fundamentalist Pentecostal household and attended college and law school at the University of Florida and currently resides in Brooklyn.She was...

 noted that "Open Letters has been doing really great stuff for a long time." Open Letters Monthly has been linked to by external sites including Arts & Letters Daily, Book Forum, The Millions

The Millions

The Millions is an online literary magazine created by C. Max Magee in 2003. It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews.The Millions has several regular contributors as well as frequent guest appearances by literary notables, including Rosecrans Baldwin, Josh Bazell, Mark Binelli,...

, and The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

s Book Bench blog.

External Links

• Open Letters Monthly, official site
• Open Letters Monthly, Facebook page