Book Review: Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
/The great critic and memoirist Clive James has a volume of new poems doing some very old things
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/Michael Palmer, 1942-2013
Read MoreBook Review: Octopus!
/The strangest, most alien creatures on the Earth have three hearts and big, unfathomable brains - and, famously, eight arms. It's the sprawling family of octopus species, and they get a soup-to-nuts examination in Katherine Harmon Courage's new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Spanish Queen
/King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, takes center stage in a new novel by Tudor historian Carolly Erickson
Read MoreBook Review: The Urban Bestiary
/Coyotes prowl our golf courses, cougars haunt our bike-trails, and owls skinny-dip in our bird-baths - a new book looks at the wild animals that fill in the spaces of human cities
Read MoreBook Review: Naturalists at Sea
/When the South Pacific opened up for Western exploration, 'experimental gentlemen' swarmed there to make discoveries - and to make history
Read MoreBook Review: Jonathan Swift
/It's not every writer who can write a book that stays in print continuously for 300 years, but the author of "Gulliver's Travels" is one of those writers. A lively new biography looks at the great Jonathan Swift
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII - The Life and Rule of England's Nero
/England's 'bluff king Hal' is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Tudors
/Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Anne
/The much-vexed life of the last Stuart monarch gets a gripping, electrifyingly good new examination
Read MoreBook Review: The Snow Hunters
/A certain pristine elegance marks Paul Yoon's latest book
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Antonio Meneses & Maria Joao Pires
/Deutsche Grammophon brings forth a stunning recital at Wigmore Hall by Portuguese musicians Antonio Meneses & Maria Joao Pires. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Machete Kills
/The ironic Grindhouse killing machine is back in Robert Rodriguez's new movie
Read MoreBook Review: Jack London, An American Life
/A new life of Jack London - by the world's foremost authority on the man's life and work.
Read MoreBook Review: The Maid's Version
/Daniel Woodrell's new novel may be slim, but it burns with the fiercest struggle of them all: the madness for survival
Read MoreBook Review: My Crazy Century
/Now at last in an English translation: the heart-breaking, history-making memoir of the world's greatest Czech writer
Read MoreBook Review: Catastrophe 1914
/A master military historian joins the crowd writing about the outbreak of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: My 1980s & Other Essays
/A new collection of personal essays - some funny, some touching, all piercingly intelligent - from one of America's greatest cultural critics
Read MoreA New Laureate
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Congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and, in the words of the prize committee, “master of the contemporary short story.” Small in its explicit scope but rich in meaning, Munro’s fiction exemplifies, for many readers, the capacity and craft of her chosen form.
Book Review: Longbourn
/"'Pride and Prejudice' meets 'Downton Abbey'" is an easy way to pigeon-hole Jo Baker's new novel - but it's the cheapest way too, giving almost no hint of just how good a book this is.
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