Working, Working
/The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates offers a wide variety of thoughts on books and the literary world in her new collection Soul at the White Heat. Britta Böhler reviews.
Read MoreEvery Cruelty
/a poem
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Sometimes the word friend is drained of meaning, but enemy, never.”
/A splendid new Jack Reacher novel and a posthumous gem by P.D. James – what better way to usher in the New Year?
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Encores after Beethoven
/If you thought of encores as sweetmeats, Andras Schiff's album of encores given during a Beethoven cycle will redefine the genre.
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers at Arms
/An invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
Read MoreBook Review: Crane Pond
/A smart and gripping new novel brings the Salem Witch mania to life.
Read MoreBook Review: The First Victory
/The tough and bitter East Africa campaign of 1941 receives a comprehensive new history.
Read MoreWilliam Trevor
/William Trevor
Read MoreBook Review: The Vanquished
/A thought-provoking new history shines a spotlight on the long and brutal aftermath of the First World War
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Elgar and Martinu cello concertos
/Sol Gabetta authors a splendidly distinctive interpretation of Elgar's famous cello concerto, and pairs it with an underappreciated work in the genre by Martinu.
Read MoreBook Review: Fifty English Steeples
/That familiar glory of medieval English architecture -the church spire - is the subject of a stunning new book.
Read MoreBook Review: Egyptomania
/A new book chronicles the world's enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Shostakovich plays Shostakovich
/The people Shostakovich played with were the elite of Russian music. A treasure trove of archive finds reveals the music they made together.
Read MoreBook Review: Scarlet Experiment
/Can birds - any species of bird, anywhere in the United States - survive their contact with humanity? A new book looks at the science and the sobering numbers.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the week - vocal works by Schoenberg & Shostakovich
/Two composers in despair composed these works for voice and piano, which contain some of the darkest moments known to music. How do they sound with a full orchestra?
Read MoreBook Review: Herbert Hoover
/Depression-era US President Herbert Hoover has always been easy to malign - a new biography argues that he's just as easy to underestimate
Read MorePassion Rules the World
/Boris Dralyuk's new translation of Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales brings its Jewish gangsters back to more vibrant life than ever. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreReindeer Meat and Polo Mints
/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreThe Secret Things of the Earth
/A new biography explores the complicated life of the writer who gave us "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery."
Read MoreEchoes of Narcissus
/A strikingly original new book explores what happens when our need to understand our experiences exceeds the stories we can tell about them.
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