Answer in Paradox
/An intimate new biography gives us a Charlotte Brontë for our times - and raises questions about the entanglement of life and art.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Mahler: 3rd symphony
/Mahler's Third is a challenge of both organization and interpretation. Does Jaap van Zweeden's new live recording deserve a place among the greats?
Read MoreBook Review: Running with Rhinos
/The heroic efforts to save the lives of the black rhinos of Zimbabwe are at the heart of a thrilling new book
Read MoreJenny Diski
/Jenny Diski
Read MoreBook Review: The Habsburg Empire: A New History
/A new history takes a thought-provokingly centralist look at the oft-chronicled Habsburg Empire
Read MoreBook Review: Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty
/A noted feminist social critic looks back on her long friendship with the great Betty Friedan.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - DG: The Mono Era
/The DG represented in this massive box of rarities is a label under post-War reconstruction, fascinating in its rigour and frugality.
Read MoreBook Review: The President's Book of Secrets
/A fascinating new book presents readers with a bounty of stories surrounding the daily intelligence-services briefing given to US Presidents
Read MoreBook Review: History and Presence
/An invigorating new study of the real presence of the divine in the mundane workings of organized religion
Read MoreBook Review: Waiting for the Past
/The latest volume from deceptively erudite Australian poet Les Murray
Read MoreBook Review: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
/America's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay gets an elegant new Selected Poems volume
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Argerich and Barenboim
/Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, born a year apart in Buenos Aires to Jewish mothers of Russian extraction, have left it until their mid-seventies to discover common ground.
Read MoreBook Review: The Empire That Would Not Die
/Abandoned by the West and battered by the Islamic caliphate, the eastern Roman Empire shrank and withdrew but did not fall - a new history asks why
Read MoreBook Review: The Fever of 1721
/When smallpox struck the city of Boston in 1721, battle lines were drawn over how to deal with it - and strange alliances formed
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Long Twelfth Century
/At the center of a lively, personality-driven new book about the twelfth century is the contentious family of King Henry II
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
/Unlike most composers, Lutoslawski's star has risen since his death. A new pairing of pairing of orchestral works shows why.
Read MoreBook Review: Thoreau's Wildflowers
/A lovely new volume offers a selection of Henry David Thoreau's heartfelt writings about flowers
Read MoreBook Review: The Whole Harmonium
/A sympathetic new biography of the poet Wallace Stevens
Read MoreBook Review: Dante - The Story of His Life
/A thorough new biography explores the life of the great Florentine poet in detail
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week: Pasternak and Scriabin
/Out of Russia's close-knit musical world, Ludmila Berlinskaya brings us Scriabin--and works from his son and the son of a man who painted him.
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