Book Review: The New Annotated Frankenstein
/Mary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.
Read MoreBook Review: Warner Bros
/The latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreSummer Reading 2017 - Political Fictions
/The summer months might be lazy and carefree in theory, but in 2017 certain specters loom over even the laziest warm day - in our annual feature, OLM editors and regulars write about political literature.
Read MoreMatching Pink Turtleneck
/Katherine Heiny's debut novel neatly balances cynicism and warmth in order to portray an unconventional family.
Read MoreThe Parties Were Hell
/Diana Trilling worked in her eminent husband’s shadow; a new biography hints at the toll that took and brings her accomplishments into the light.
Read MoreBodies in Motion
/A horrific murder in upstate New York creates the choking atmosphere for J. Robert Lennon's new novel.
Read MoreMoonlight in Vermont
/Her remarkable bittersweet memoir reveals Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer as a shrewd anthropologist of wartime America.
Read MoreHunger Pangs
/Roxane Gay's new memoir about food, trauma, and her "unruly body" is often as difficult to read as it must have been to write.
Read MoreThe Sooner Disquieted
/What compromises did women in Tudor England face? What joys? What prospects, if any, for fulfillment? A sweeping new history cross-sections the issue.
Read MoreDangerous Crossings
/A gripping new history tells the story of the seized and renamed German luxury liner that became a US troop transport during the First World War.
Read MoreManhattan Picaresque
/A mysterious, youthful Englishman arrives in the New World and exposes an underbelly of economic uncertainty, political tension, and the impossible romantic yearnings of its diverse and complex inhabitants.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Everything is hard before it’s easy”
/Two new novels - one featuring a veteran chief of police and the other featuring Agatha Christie herself - combine thrills, intrigue, and a basset hound named Balzac.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Ben-Haim orchestral works
/he music of Ben-Haim will not change lives – by 1984, when he died, it was hardly heard in Israel any more – but the musical personality behind it is attractive, smart and persuasive
Read MoreBook Review: The Allies Strike Back
/A vivid new history recounts the resurgence of the Allies against the Germany war machine during the highest pitch of the Second World War
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Strauss songs
/To sing Richard Strauss, everything has to be just-so, shimmering on the surface and hinting at Freudian urges below. English soprano Louise Alder meets his challenge.
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Royal
/A sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Carbonelli: Sonate da Camera
/ever heard of Carbonelli? Don’t feel too bad about it. Listen to the music, though, and you will wonder how work of such quality and intricacy could vanish so comprehensively into the mists of history.
Read MoreBook Review: The White Road
/The quest for social media click-traffic leads a young video-maker to the heights of the world's deadliest mountain in Sarah Lotz's new thriller.
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