Visitations in the Night
/A stylish new neo-Victorian novel uncovers the mystery of a mythical serpent returned from the deeps.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Mahler's 5th
/Mahler's 5th Symphony has no shortage of fine interpretations. Two new recordings join them: one great and the other among the greatest of all time.
Read MoreBook Review: Grace
/A young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Walton: concerto & variations
/William Walton is very much an on-off composer. What’s remarkable about this recording is that the performance transcends his shortcomings.
Read MoreBook Review: Bed-Stuy is Burning
/A debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.
Read MoreBook Review: Madame Zero
/Many readers will find reflections of themselves in the nine stories that comprise Sarah Hall's newest collection.
Read MoreBook Review: The Epiphany Machine
/A mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Fischer-Dieskau, Varady: Romantic duets
/Together, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his wife Julia Varady make the love in Schumann’s songs seem somehow less hopeless, and the hope in Mendelssohn less forlorn.
Read MoreBook Review: See What I Have Done
/The famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.
Read MoreBook Review: We Shall Not All Sleep
/The centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Shostakovich & Martinu cello concertos
/Two cello concertos, one upbeat, the other pessemistic, make a perfect companions on this new disc.
Read MoreBook Review: Patrick Henry
/A lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
Read MoreBook 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.
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