Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - piano pieces by Feldman and Crumb
/Steven Osborne takes on unexpected repertoire: the ascetic Morton Feldman and the extreme George Crumb.
Read MoreBook Review: The Gene
/A generous new book describes the history - and the momentous potential - of genetic research
Read MoreBook Review: The Summer Dragon
/In fantasy illustrator Todd Lockwood's debut novel, a young woman from a family of dragon-breeders faces an ancient evil
Read MoreKindling the Mob
/A new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.
Read MoreClosing the Buffet
/A fascinating new book reveals the wonders that are visible once humans stop thinking of fish as merely food with fins.
Read MoreHow We Got From There to Here
/A thoughtful new book about Victorian concepts of space, nation, and mobility reminds us that our own world is vulnerable to unraveling as we move from here to wherever’s next.
Read MoreRabbit Trails into History: An interview with translator Christiana Hills
/Steve Danziger talks with Christina Hills, a "cruciverbalist" translator from the controversial Oulipo school.
Read MoreLet's All Meet at the Mahalalel Mall
/A thorough and even-handed new book gives readers a tour of the "Creation Museum" in Kentucky - and warns not to dismiss its dangers too readily.
Read MoreStashed under a Bush
/a poem
Read MoreSocrates of Amazonia
/What exactly is a philosopher? As it turns out, that question may have more than one answer. Robert Minto shares the exciting results of Justin Smith's new history.
Read MoreThe Smooth Handle
/Did Thomas Jefferson love his slave, the mother of his children Sally Hemings? A new novel asks the question factually and counterfactually, and Kenyon Gradert sums up the results.
Read MoreWhy Don’t You Both Shut Up?
/In the United States in the last few decades, issues of free speech have drifted closer and closer to the heart of American life. A new book analyzes a right too many Americans take for granted.
Read MoreThe Devil in the Hills
/A new book about Primo Levi’s morally questionable acts as a Partisan can’t cut him down to size: his own self-critique makes that superfluous.
Read MoreOccasional Fiction
/As a collection of stories about the complexities of marriage, Reader, I Married Him is good, sometimes even excellent. But how is it as a provocation to rethink Jane Eyre?
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Anonymous Concertos
/These six early-classical concertos are close to the best music of their time and yet the composers of these six concertos are unknown.
Read MoreBook Review: Bach's Major Vocal Works
/Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's most glorious music is also some of the most intimidating to modern audiences; a new book introduces readers to the masses and oratorios of the master.
Read MoreBook Review: The Risen
/The familiar story of the Spartacus rebellion gets a lavish new telling
Read MoreBook Review: The Next Pandemic
/A lively account of life on the front lines in the fight against the world's worst diseases.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Manhattan Night
/A terrific ten-year-old noir novel is given a new paperback edition on the occasion of its translation to the Hollywood screen.
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