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September 30, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Pretty Yende

September 30, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

It is now seven years since the South African soprano Pretty Yende burst on our ears as winner of the 2009 Hans Gabor competition in Vienna. That omission has now, finally, been repaired.

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September 30, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
September 2016
September 30, 2016

Read, Write, Love

September 30, 2016/ Rohan Maitzen

When Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri abandons English for Italian, she learns as much about herself as about her new language.

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September 30, 2016/ Rohan Maitzen/
Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, rohan maitzen, September 2016, translation
September 27, 2016

Book Review: Tamil

September 27, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A dense yet lyrical new book tells the long, intricate life story of the Tamil language and Tamil literature

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September 27, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 23, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Lang Lang: New York Rhapsody

September 23, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

A bizarre "crossover" album combines pop songs, fragments of Andrew Copland, Gershwin, and a dual performance by Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock. So how New York is this album?

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September 23, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
September 2016
September 22, 2016

Book Review: The Playful Little Dog

September 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Penguin Random House continues its re-issue series of classic little children's books.

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September 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 22, 2016

Book Review: Lusitania - The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

September 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Just over a century ago, the luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat with great loss of life, a disaster that, as a new book explains, re-shaped the world.

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September 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 19, 2016

Book Review: Looking For Betty MacDonald

September 19, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The beloved author of "The Egg and I" receives her first full-length biography

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September 19, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 16, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Prokofiev Violin Concertos

September 16, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

Prokofiev's violin concertos, one anarchic, one written under duress to please Stalin, anchor an intriguing new release from Vadim Gluzman and Neeme Järvi.

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September 16, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
September 2016
September 15, 2016

Book Review: Cocteau - A Life

September 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The multi-faceted artist and director Jean Cocteau is the subject of a mammoth biography, newly translated into English

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September 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 15, 2016

Book Review: Selling Hitler

September 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A brilliant new study anatomizes the mechanisms of Nazi propaganda

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September 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
September 2016
September 13, 2016

Book Review: Deepwater Horizon

September 13, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.

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September 13, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
science, September 2016
September 12, 2016

Book Review: If Venice Dies

September 12, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The tourist magnet of Venice faces an uncertain future on many fronts - but Salvatore Settis has many possible solutions in mind ...

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September 12, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Travel
September 2016
September 09, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

September 09, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

Michael Nyman's rare and underappreciated chamber opera, based on a book by Oliver Sacks, finally gets a rare new recording.

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September 09, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
September 2016
September 08, 2016

Book Review: Where Song Began

September 08, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The overflowing diversity of Australian bird life is the subject of Tim Low's captivating new book

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September 08, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
nature, September 2016
September 08, 2016

Book Review: Why Birds Matter

September 08, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Who can measure the worth of a nightingale's song? Why scientists can, you silly thing!

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September 08, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
nature, September 2016
September 05, 2016

Book Review: Red Right Hand

September 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A young woman's life is turned upside-down when she encounters a strange man with a molten red hand.

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September 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, September 2016
September 05, 2016

Book Review: Red Right Hand

September 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The hitman who kills hitmen is contracted by a semi-rogue FBI agent to take on a particularly delicate - and dangerous - side-mission

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September 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, September 2016
September 02, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Ustvolskaya, Silverstrov, Kancheli

September 02, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

The late Soviet system created damaging monopolies in the arts as much as they did in state industry. The three lesser-known composers in this intriguing album each tackled the hegemony from a different aspect.

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September 02, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
September 2016
August 31, 2016

Light Puppets

August 31, 2016/ Robert Minto

In Moonstone, Icelandic author Sjón tells a story of 1918 Iceland through the longings and alienation of a sixteen-year-old orphan named Mani. Robert Minto reviews.

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August 31, 2016/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, Robert Minto, September 2016
August 31, 2016

Show Queens

August 31, 2016/ Michael Adams

Two new books - a biography of one of Broadway's brightest stars and a memoir from one of its lesser lights - bring the world of American stage and screen vividly to life.

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August 31, 2016/ Michael Adams/
Arts & Life
Book Review, Michael Adams, music, September 2016, theater
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