Book Review: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
/The life stories of twelve incredible medieval manuscripts.
Read MoreBook Review: The Water Will Come
/A powerful new book covers in terrifying detail what happens to the modern world if Earth's ice caps dissolve.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Les Troyens
/The need for a new-gen recording of Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens is pressing. A new release aims for the crown and hits its mark.
Read MoreThis Week In My Classes: Keeping Up
/I am, mostly, but today I had my doubts about my students, many of whom seemed pretty tired and some of whom I’m reasonably certain were also (probably not unrelatedly) too behind on the reading to have anything to say in class. That’s OK: it happens, especially around this time of term. It is startling […]
Read MoreA World Apart
/The re-introduction of a wolf pack to Yellowstone National Park led to ecological changes even some naturalists didn't foresee - and gave rise to the daily dramas recounted in Nate Blakeslee's new book.
Read MoreFaience and Light
/Vermeer is the name we all know, but a new exhibition demonstrates the charm and beauty of his contemporaries in 17th-century Dutch genre painting.
Read MoreA Bygone Present
/An eerie atmosphere and finely-watched details are among the strange strengths of Fiona Mozley's odd debut novel Elmet - and among its weaknesses.
Read MoreA Sheet of Iron All Night
/The battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.
Read MoreThe Land of K
/a poem
Read MoreMeta-Pleasure
/The bewildering literary project author Mark Danielewski has undertaken - 27 mammoth and genre-defying novels in one series - continues.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Reality is the product of the most august Imagination”
/The 22nd in Lee Child’s superlative Jack Reacher series finds him in top form and a first entry from H.B. Lyle promises to be a captivating new addition to the genre.
Read MoreThe Atrium Effect: Museums Under Glass
/Big slabs of glass may look impressive, but they have a serious effect on our interaction with art. Museums are changing, and it isn't always a good thing.
Read MoreMan's Pest Friend
/Only one dog out of every five on Earth is somebody's pet; the rest are roamers in streets and city dumps. A fascinating new book looks at the lives of the canine majority.
Read MoreA Boy Who Would Be King
/How did Donald Trump, a vacuous, bigoted sociopath, get to the White House? He did it by being himself.
Read MoreNormal Lebrecht's CD of the Week - George Martin
/This first album of George Martin's orchestral music and film scores, elegantly played by Craig Leon’s Berlin’s Music Ensemble, gives us an opportunity to see what might have been going on behind George’s determinedly bland musical façade.
Read MoreBook Review: The Second World Wars
/Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.
Read MoreBook Review: The Collector of Lives
/Giorgio Vasari, the author of a fundamental and beloved collection of the lives of Renaissance artists, here gets a lively and readable biography of his own.
Read MoreBook Review: Grant
/Bestselling biographer Ron Chernow tells the story of famous general and infamous president Ulysses S. Grant.
Read MoreBook Review: Trump is F*cking Crazy
/Former newscaster and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is a new star of YouTube for his strident opposition to President Trump; his new book provides the transcript.
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