Absent Friends: An Intellectual All The Time
/An old book by a monk may be the best thing ever written about the practice of thinking. Robert Minto revisits The Intellectual Life.
Read MoreLove In Every Stitch
/A fascinating book explores the relationship between necessity and love in military knitting across the ages.
Read MoreStrange and Dark As It Is
/Fantasy author Rjurik Davidson returns with the second novel of minotaurs, magic, and political unrest. Justin Hickey reviews The Stars Askew.
Read MoreLoving American Philosophy: A Testimony
/John Kaag's memoir of personal engagement with American philosophy demonstrates its ongoing vitality. Kenyon Gradert reviews.
Read MorePoetry: grief
/a poem
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreWorlds Undone
/The NYRB Classics reprints three seminal novels by the elusive author who wrote under the pen name Henry Green. Jack Hanson reviews.
Read MoreThe bowl that one fills and fills
/What has not already been written about Virginia Woolf? A new critical biography offers ideas about how to read both her work and her life.
Read MoreBodies in Trouble
/A new novel about a notorious Viennese clinic aims to do justice to the lives of those the Nazis declared were utterly without value.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Pretty Yende
/It is now seven years since the South African soprano Pretty Yende burst on our ears as winner of the 2009 Hans Gabor competition in Vienna. That omission has now, finally, been repaired.
Read MoreRead, Write, Love
/When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.
Read MoreBook Review: Tamil
/A dense yet lyrical new book tells the long, intricate life story of the Tamil language and Tamil literature
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Lang Lang: New York Rhapsody
/A bizarre "crossover" album combines pop songs, fragments of Andrew Copland, Gershwin, and a dual performance by Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock. So how New York is this album?
Read MoreBook Review: The Playful Little Dog
/Penguin Random House continues its re-issue series of classic little children's books.
Read MoreBook Review: Lusitania - The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
/Just over a century ago, the luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat with great loss of life, a disaster that, as a new book explains, re-shaped the world.
Read MoreBook Review: Looking For Betty MacDonald
/The beloved author of "The Egg and I" receives her first full-length biography
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Prokofiev Violin Concertos
/Prokofiev's violin concertos, one anarchic, one written under duress to please Stalin, anchor an intriguing new release from Vadim Gluzman and Neeme Järvi.
Read MoreBook Review: Cocteau - A Life
/The multi-faceted artist and director Jean Cocteau is the subject of a mammoth biography, newly translated into English
Read MoreBook Review: Selling Hitler
/A brilliant new study anatomizes the mechanisms of Nazi propaganda
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
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