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June 30, 2017

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Ben-Haim orchestral works

June 30, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht

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

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June 30, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2017
June 27, 2017

Book Review: The Allies Strike Back

June 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A vivid new history recounts the resurgence of the Allies against the Germany war machine during the highest pitch of the Second World War

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June 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
June 2017
June 23, 2017

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Strauss songs

June 23, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht

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.

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June 23, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2017
June 20, 2017

Book Review: Blood Royal

June 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses

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June 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
June 2017
June 16, 2017

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Carbonelli: Sonate da Camera

June 16, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht

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.

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June 16, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2017
June 14, 2017

Book Review: The White Road

June 14, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

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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June 14, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, June 2017
June 12, 2017

Book Review: Heretics & Believers

June 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life

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June 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
June 2017, religion
June 09, 2017

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week: Russia Cast Adrift

June 09, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht

Georgy Sviridov was born in the thick of Russia’s metamorphosis, and his idiom in these lieder – narrative, tonal, almost static at times – reflects the stand-off between political upheaval and the impervious cycles of nature.

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June 09, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2017
June 07, 2017

Book Review: The Best Land Under Heaven

June 07, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A thorough and searching new book explores not only the tragic fate of the Donner Party but the dreams that motivated them in the first place.

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June 07, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
June 2017
June 02, 2017

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Ravel and De Falla concertos

June 02, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht

There is a lot of competition for performances of Ravel and De Falla's work for piano and orchestra, but Steven Osborne's new release belongs among the best.

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June 02, 2017/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2017
May 31, 2017

The Phantom of Constancy

May 31, 2017/ Nick Holdstock

The 1930 novel Rapture, by the Russian avant-garde artist Iliazd, is a fast-paced, darkly funny spin on the adventure genre.

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May 31, 2017/ Nick Holdstock/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, June 2017, literary criticism
May 31, 2017

The Most Happy

May 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

As she did with Katherine of Aragon, Alison Weir gives Anne Boleyn the saintly treatment in her new novel. But does Anne, like Katherine, deserve it?

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May 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Tudors, Features, Fiction, Politics & History
fiction, June 2017, Steve Donoghue
May 31, 2017

Good Grief: In Memory of Denis Johnson

May 31, 2017/ David Culberg

Denis Johnson died last month, but we have his ten novels and his legacy: the inclination to see the great beauty only afforded by the stripping away of joy.

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May 31, 2017/ David Culberg/
Features, Fiction, Arts & Life, Absent Friends
fiction, June 2017
May 31, 2017

Two Conversation Poems

May 31, 2017/ Mark Dow

a poem

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May 31, 2017/ Mark Dow/
Poetry
June 2017, Poetry
May 31, 2017

Falling into the Future: An Interview with Paula Bomer

May 31, 2017/ Steve Danziger

Steve Danziger interviews Paula Bomer about her new collection of essays, Mysteries and Mortality, and much more besides.

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May 31, 2017/ Steve Danziger/
Arts & Life
Interview, June 2017
May 31, 2017

An “Untold” Story?

May 31, 2017/ Jennifer Helinek

Unlike Jean Rhys, Sarah Shoemaker tells Mr. Rochester's side of Jane Eyre with respect and fidelity to Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. But is that the problem?

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May 31, 2017/ Jennifer Helinek/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, June 2017, literary criticism
May 31, 2017

Change Your Direction

May 31, 2017/ Jerry White

A lively memoir shows there's much more to learning a language than conjugating irregular verbs.

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May 31, 2017/ Jerry White/
Arts & Life
biography, June 2017, philosophy
May 31, 2017

To My Lovers

May 31, 2017/ Alina Stefanescu

a poem

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May 31, 2017/ Alina Stefanescu/
Poetry
June 2017, Poetry
May 31, 2017

Down the Rabbit Hole

May 31, 2017/ Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

An innovative new book on Lewis Carroll and space avoids spoiling the fun by explaining everything too literally, but still offers new insights on his playful oeuvre.

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May 31, 2017/ Miriam Elizabeth Burstein/
Fiction, Arts & Life
biography, fiction, June 2017, nature
May 31, 2017

It’s a Mystery: “What better place than a funeral for a study in human nature”

May 31, 2017/ Irma Heldman

June brings a deliciously devious, dark take on vintage English crime fiction, and the return of a charismatic antihero searching for redemption.

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May 31, 2017/ Irma Heldman/
Features
Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, June 2017, mystery fiction
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