Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bernstein Symphonies
/Leonard Bernstein's symphonies have long been neglected in favor of his popular work, but Marin Alsop breathes new life into them by surpassing the composer himself.
Read MoreBook Review: Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms
/Down below the sidewalks of London, a warren of secret rooms housed the war effort while bombs were falling on the city; a lavish new book tours the war rooms.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Weinberg Chamber Symphonies
/Formerly unknown, Mieczylaw Weinberg stature as a composer is growing--deservedly so, as these chamber symphonies attest.
Read MoreBook Review: Three Days in January
/As a new book about Eisenhower and Kennedy makes clear, transitions of presidential power, especially between rival parties, have always been testy.
Read MoreBook Review: The House of the Dead
/Long before the Soviet gulag, Russian dissidents, criminals, and political exiles were sent to the vast frozen wasteland of Siberia. A grim new book tells their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: The Egyptians
/The Egyptian Revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath forms the subject of a riveting new book by a journalist and keen-eyed witness.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Shostakovich concertos
/Despite how they're often played, Shostakovich's piano concertos weren't intended for virtuoso performers. Boris Giltburg tries an originalist approach.
Read MoreBook Review: Falling Ill
/From the late and much-honored poet CK Williams, one final work
Read MoreBook Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
/The famed writer of "You Know Me Al" was also a life-long prolific deadline writer. An invaluable new book collects the journalism of Ring Lardner.
Read MoreBook Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Guglielmo Ratcliff
/The release of a long-forgotten opera proves, finally, that Pietro Mascagni was not a one hit wonder.
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: Son of Superman
/In the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreIt Happened in Two Mills
/A keenly felt nostalgia mixes with themes of race, loneliness, and forgiveness in Jerry Spinelli's latest novel, The Warden's Daughter.
Read MoreThe Magus of Dreams
/Victorian author Thomas DeQuincey will forever be known mainly as the author of the fantastic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but a vivid new biography introduces readers to the man behind the masterpiece.
Read MoreThe Mermaids of Kansas City
/a poem
Read MoreStolen From Life: An Interview with Jack Kohl
/Michael Johnson interviews Jack Kohl, a Juilliard-trained pianist who also finds challenge and inspiration in writing fiction.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: “You Are My Grace”
/Jane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreBiospeleology
/a poem
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Pictures of America
/What would Natalie Dessay find in a collection of American songs that others have not found before?
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