CD of the Week -- Vivaldi's Chamber Sonatas
/Against all expectations arrives a fantastic new recording of Vivaldi's sonatas, courtesy of L'Estravagante. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Her Highness the Traitor
/A new novel tells the story of two women who played a very dangerous game for the biggest prize of all: the throne of England
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Prometheus
/Ridley Scott's long-awaited sci-fi epic finally arrives!
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of Vengeance
/A fine and fact-filled new account of the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Elusive Victories
/A stunning and insightful new book about the ways modern American presidents go to war, stay at war, and exit war.
Read MoreComics: The Court of Owls
/DC Comics re-creates its entire line of superheroes - including the Caped Crusader himself, Batman
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Full Measure
/A sharp new work seeks to get at the gory reality behind the Hollywood images of warfare.
Read MoreCD of the Week -- Nikolai Medtner
/These rare recordings illuminate the valuable contributions of the Russian composer (and contemporary of Rachmaninov's) Nikolai Medtner
Read MoreBook Review: The Family Corleone
/Veteran writer Ed Falco pens a prequel to "The Godfather," featuring the rise of a crime family - and the story of a vicious strongman named Luca Brasi.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
/Can the Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings approach work with the Brothers Grimm? Mr. Anderson tells the tale!
Read MoreComics: The Legion Archive, Vol. 13
/The long-awaited next volume in the ongoing Legion of Super-Heroes reprint line is finally here!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Chernobyl Diaries
/Disaster movie or disaster of a movie? Horror movie or horrible movie? Mr. Anderson disambiguates!
Read MoreJune 2012 Issue
/photo by Jeff Proctor
Read MoreThe Non-Event of the Month
/Last week on NBC's Meet the Press, Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, was asked to give his opinion about an advertisement the Obama campaign has been running. It was a cover story for days. It was a complete waste of everyone's time.
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight in Peking
/In pre-war Peking, a young girl is brutally murdered, and an investigation is working against time as Japanese forces converge on the city. But the girl's father wants justice, even if he has to find it himself.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Mabinogion Tetralogy
/A towering landmark of epic fantasy literature is re-issued in a pretty paperback!
Read MoreAn Interview with Kim Newman
/An interview with Kim Newman, author of the fantastic "Anno Dracula" series of novels!
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Bloody Red Baron
/In the sequel to Kim Newman's great "Anno Dracula," the evil Count wages war - the First World War, to be exact - with the living!
Read MoreBook Review: Of Moose and Men
/The closest thing to a genuine 'moose-whisperer' finally gets around to writing the Bible on the species!
Read MoreMovie Review: Battleship
/Can an enormous budget save an old, defunct board game about an old, defunct class of warship? Ask Mr. Anderson!
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