HARD WATER
/a poem
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreWrithing Bounty
/A gruesomely fascinating new book looks at the weird and unsettling phenomenon of venom in animal kingdom. Justin Hickey reviews.
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/a poem
Read MoreActually Existing Neoliberalism
/Andrew Brower Latz sums up and recommends Colin Crouch's trenchant critique of neoliberalism.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The dead can’t lie.”
/Alan Parsons' single-minded, two-fisted policeman sleuth Max Wolfe returns in The Hanging Club.
Read MoreBook Review: Charlemagne
/The larger-than-life medieval Frankish king Charlemagne is the subject of a definitive single-volume biography now translated into English
Read MoreInfinitesimal Jest
/Ian McEwan's latest novel has an ingenious premise--but does it deliver on its promise? Rohan Maitzen reviews Nutshell.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week: Kurtág string quartets
/Away from the imprisonment of a concert hall, György Kurtág's string quartets create an ambience akin to Gregorian chant: it's the perfect chillout music.
Read MoreBook Review: Turner
/A sumptuous new biography of the man behind the Turner legend
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Tchaikovsky
/The benchmarks for Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony are mono in both uses of the term, aural and chromatic. How does a modern release hold up?
Read MoreBook Review: Black Elk
/The Sioux medicine man and centerpiece of "Black Elk Speaks" is the subject of a comprehensive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
/A big new biography attempts to get at the flesh-and-blood man behind the problematic theory of Marxism
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week: French Suites
/After playing all his life for Columbia Masterworks, Murray Perahia has released his first recording for Deutsche Grammophon, a luminous recording of Bach's French Suites.
Read MoreBook Review: Something in the Blood
/A big, generous new biography of the man who created Dracula
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder
/It is so rare to hear the Gurre Lieder live that most of us are acquainted with it only on record. A new concert recording of this liminal composition aims to join the pantheon.
Read MoreBook Review: Britain's War, 1937-1941: Into Battle
/A lively new history of the years England fought alone against the might of Nazi Germany
Read MoreBook Review: Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
/The editors of Vanity Fair magazine delve into their century of writing to serve up dozens of their best writers writing about other writers.
Read MoreBook Review: Northmen
/A gripping new history tells the broader story of the Viking Era
Read MoreBook Review: Eyes on the Street
/A lively new biography tells the story of iconic urban visionary and outspoken cultural critic Jane Jacobs.
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