Book Review: The Massacre of Mankind
/"The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells gets an authorized sequel in which you-know-who are back for another shot at conquering the Earth.
Read MoreBook Review: Quakeland
/An enormous earthquake is an inevitable feature of America's near future, and yet as Kathryn Miles' gripping new book makes clear, the country is completely, willfully unprepared.
Read MoreBook Review: The Party
/A smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the week - Hans Werner Hanze
/It has been five years since Hans Werner Henze left us, and it is once again a pleasure to encounter these otherworldly pieces, rich in references to a forgotten age and its leisurely pace.
Read MoreBook Review: Judgment at Appomattox
/The bitter final weeks of the American Civil War form backdrop of Ralph Peters' dark, powerful latest novel.
Read MoreBook Review: Bush and Cheney
/One of the most outspoken critics of the official version of 9-11 now writes a wide-ranging assessment of the long-term consequences of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Read MoreBook Review: The Riviera at War
/An impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The World Broke in Two
/A new book contends that one particular year in the wake of the First World War changed the literary landscape forever.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - For Bunita Marcus
/Marc-André Hamelin plays a piece, tainted by controversy, that Morton Feldman wrote as an act of homage to Bunita Marcus, who accused him of theft and sexual abuse.
Read MoreBook Review: One Summer Day in Rome
/The lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.
Read MoreBook Review: The Paris Spy
/The unsinkable Maggie Hope is on the case again in Susan Elia MacNeal's latest historical whodunit - this time set in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight in the Pacific
/A key turning-point in the Battle of the Pacific gets a richly anecdotal new history.
Read MoreBook Review: Their Backs Against the Sea
/A ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - El-Khoury and Spyres in Concert
/A new release from Opera Rara usually consists of some bel canto work that has languished forgotten in a vault since its premiere 160 years ago. This package, though, is different: a pair of debut releases by two fast-rising singers, soprano and tenor, mingling well-known arias with the fairly obscure.
Read MoreBook Review: The Half-Drowned King
/The first installment in a projected series about a wily Viking warrior, his leader - and the women in his life
Read MoreBook Review: The Seventh Function of Language
/Was the death of literary theorist Roland Barthes in 1980 the result of a simple traffic accident - or part of a deeper plot? Laurent Binet's new novel takes readers into the weird world of ginned-up semiology.
Read MoreBook Review: A Talent for Murder
/Andrew Wilson's new novel dramatizes the real-life ten-day disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie nearly a century ago - and adds a touch of murder.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - The Dream of Gerontius
/Daniel Barenboim's new recording of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius is the best-sounding on record. But is it the best-played?
Read MoreBook Review: The Treaty of Versailles
/A new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: In the Highest Degree Tragic
/The doomed valor of the small, scrappy US Asiatic Fleet in the Pacific Theater, often overlooked in WWII histories, now gets an elaborate new chronicle.
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