Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Unknown Composers
/None of the music on this gripping compilation will be familiar to anyone alive, but much of it is essential listening.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cold War
/A massive new study looks at the Cold War as a world war, touching - and often toppling - governments far from Washington or Moscow.
Read MoreBook Review: The Witch
/Paganism scholar Ronald Hutton's fascinating new book delves into the long history of the witch in human societies.
Read MoreBook Review: The Republic For Which It Stands
/America in the sordid wilderness years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century is the focus of the newest volume in the mighty Oxford History of the United States.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - C.P.E. Bach: Late Keyboard Pieces
/A vintage piano helps Alexei Lyubimov redeem C.P.E. Bach's late keyboard music from mediocrity, adding pastel colours to the sound picture, along with a hint of unpredictability that can almost be Cageian.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Tomorrow
/The fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Future Won't Be Long
/An '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"
Read MoreBeyond “Ma”
/A new novel re-imagines the beloved character of "Ma" from Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books.
Read MoreWalk This Way
/Women have never had the same freedom to wander the streets as men; a delightful new book explores the stories of those who did it anyway.
Read MoreSearching for Him
/Zinzi Clemmons' much-discussed debut novel blurs the line between memoir and fiction; Britta Böhler reviews What We Lose.
Read MoreSecond Glance: It by Stephen King
/As a new adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel It hits theaters, a critic takes another look at the novel and its underlying conflicts.
Read MoreCrushing It
/a poem
Read MoreThe Continuing Enterprise of the Poem
/Veteran translator David Ferry tackles that Mount Everest of the translator's art, Virgil's Aeneid.
Read MoreThe Clean Light of Morning
/It wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.
Read MoreSagittarius
/a poem
Read MoreOn the Beach
/Long before Hollywood came calling, the 300,000 soldiers at Dunkirk were just trying to make it home alive. A new history by Joshua Levine retells the story of Britain's most harrowing hour.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Unless you sample life’s dangers you shall never know its mysteries”
/Armand Gamache returns in Louise Penny's latest thriller, and the legendary John le Carré revisits the events of his most famous novel in A Legacy of Spies.
Read MoreBook Review: The Massacre of Mankind
/"The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells gets an authorized sequel in which you-know-who are back for another shot at conquering the Earth.
Read MoreBook Review: Quakeland
/An enormous earthquake is an inevitable feature of America's near future, and yet as Kathryn Miles' gripping new book makes clear, the country is completely, willfully unprepared.
Read MoreBook Review: The Party
/A smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
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