Book Review: Cezanne
/"I paint, I work, I am free of thought" said Cezanne, and his thoughtless paintings changed art forever. A cinematic new biography explores the man's life and art.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Icefall
/On a lonely icebound fjord, the young daughter of a Viking king must solve a series of crimes - and find her destiny
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Jack Reacher
/It's Tom Cruise starring as Lee Child's super-tall, super-gritty action hero!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Hobbit
/The first part of director Peter Jackson's long-awaited movie adaptation of "The Hobbit" is finally here
Read MoreBook Review: Constantine the Emperor
/He put Christianity on the road to world domination - and he did a lot of other horrid things as well. He's Constantine the Great, and he's got a new biographer
Read MoreBook Review: Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron
/In a rip-snorting new blood-and-swash history of the War of 1812, the men and their fighting ships take center stage
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Sessions
/The Oscar race for Best Actor gets a little bit more crowded with the performance of John Hawkes in Ben Lewin's "The Sessions"
Read MoreBook Review: Counting One's Blessings
/The official biographer of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother now gives us that most unlikely of things: a collection of her life-long correspondence
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Norton Critical English Bible
/A new college-use edition of the King James Bible turns out to be that rarest of publishing phenomena: a true must-have masterpiece.
Read MoreBook Review: A Dangerous Inheritance
/Historian Alison Weir's latest novel features two young heroines, separated by 80 years but united by their fascination with one of history's mysteries: the fate of the Princes in the Tower
Read MoreBook Review: Spectrum 19
/The latest "Spectrum" arrives, full of worlds of wonder!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Life of Pi
/A boy and a tiger, trapped at sea - the best-selling novel "Life of Pi" gets a movie adaptation by Ang Lee
Read MoreThe Landscapes Through Which We Traveled
/Peter Handke turns 70 today. One of his translators and frequent travel companions offers a tribute.
Read MoreBook Review: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
/Perfect for the dog-lover on your gift list: a great big new dog-themed anthology from the vaults of the New Yorker
Read MoreTraveler at his Desk
/Burgess gave himself room to stretch his arms (and facts) in the two volumes of his Confessions. That space to digress, opine, sing songs, is what makes both books so memorable -- even indispensable.
Read MoreDecember 2012: The Burgess Issue
/"Anthony Burgess"by Rachel Burgess
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka in Love
/Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.
Read MoreCD of the Week - Fazil Say
/The embattled Turkish composer Fazil Say releases a symphony rooted in the sounds of his homeland. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
/Trying to mind his own business, a man at a Yankees game refuses to stand for a singing of "God Bless America" - and all Hell breaks loose.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians
/Santa Claus ... the Easter Bunny ... the Sandman ... the Tooth Fairy ... figures out of children's story-time band together with Jack Frost to fight an evil that threatens childhood itself
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