Our Editions, Ourselves
/How many copies of Middlemarch does one person need? When the edition is as lovely as this, there's always room for one more.
Read MoreBook Review: The Ex
/A name from a hotshot defense attorney's past comes back to haunt her when she discovers her ex is a suspect in a triple homicide
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – Manhattan Intermezzo
/This week's CD features concertos by Neil Sedaka and Duke Ellington keyboardist Keith Emerson, and the only weak point is Rhapsody in Blue. Norman Lebrecht explains.
Read MoreBook Review: Lay Down Your Weary Tune
/An out-of-work musician is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a legendary blues singer, but the legend hides some grim new realities
Read MoreBook Review: Cosmosapiens
/A sweeping new overview of the sciences has big ambitions - and some odd sticking points
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Tudor Princess
/The little-known matriarch of modern British monarchy, the headstrong niece of King Henry VIII, is the subject of an absorbing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Bull and Other Stories
/Misfits and battered believers fill the pages of Kathy Anderson's wise and funny debut
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/David Hartwell
Read MoreGeorge Weidenfeld
/George Weidenfeld
Read MoreBook Review: Groundless
/Rumors and dark stories flew along the rutted dirt roads of colonial America, bearing tales that had virtually no basis in reality. A new book uses rumor to understand the rumormongers.
Read MoreMichel Tournier
/Michel Tournier
Read MoreBook Review: The Butcher's Trail
/In the wake of the strife and collapse of Slobodan Mlosevic's Yugoslavia, a large group of war criminals had to be hunted down and delivered for trial. A riveting new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Justifying Genocide
/A powerful new book looks at the ideological connections between the Armenian Genocide and the Nazi death-camps that followed twenty years later
Read MoreBook Review: Jakob's Colors
/The Nazi slaughter of hundreds of thousands of European gypsies forms the grim backdrop to Lindsay Hawdon's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Bands of Mourning
/In the latest novel from hyper-prolific Brandon Sanderson, the vast mythos of his "Cosmere" is further expanded
Read MoreBook Review: George Washington's Journey
/In his first term as president, George Washington packed up and went on long, rattling tours of the new United States, to see the people and let them see him. A new book follows along.
Read MoreDavid Bowie
/David Bowie
Read MoreBook Review: What Belongs to You
/An American instructor in Bulgaria falls into a problematic infatuation with a rough-hewn rent-boy in Garth Greenwell's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Norton Critical Lazarillo de Tormes
/The great Renaissance classic gets a spryly-translated new Norton edition
Read MoreBook Review: Blood & Steel
/In the third century, the Roman Empire teetered on the brink of implosion, with one man after another claiming power - and Harry Sidebottom's "Throne of the Caesars" series transmutes it all into first-rate historical fiction
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