Book Review: ADHD Nation
/A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read MoreBook Review: August 1914
/Before the famous epic battles of the First World War, there were lesser-known but equally ferocious clashes that are often lost in the larger narrative. A short, powerful book seeks to redress that imbalance.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Elgar Remastered
/The last decade and a half of Elgar's musical life was focused on leaving a legacy in the form of composer-approved recordings. A remastered 4-CD set collects the brilliant results.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Poldark
/The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face
Read MoreBook Review: Angelinetum and Other Poems
/Doctor and poet Giovanni Marrasio's verses receive an expert new edition from the Harvard's I Tatti Library series
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Martinu's Ariane
/I am beginning to wonder if posterity will ever place Bohuslav Martinu where he justly belongs, as one who's sound world is at once distinctive and entirely approachable, the mark of a great composer.
Read MoreBook Review: America's Snake
/Snake expert Ted Levin argues in his captivating new book that the American rattlesnake is as misunderstood as it is miraculous.
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Life
/Veteran editor Terry McDonell writes a ribald memoir that's half storytelling and half tips of the trade
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Schubert Leider
/It’s always a good sign when a pianist is named as the editorial force behind a lieder recital, giving the enterprise both objective distance and intellectual rigour, as it does in these Schubert leider.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifty-Year Mission
/On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.
Read MoreBook Review: Marked for Death
/A gritty and gripping new history tells the story of the dawn of aerial warfare.
Read MoreBook Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
/A crippled young man in a forgotten hospital has armored himself against the rotten hand he's drawn in life - until he falls in love with a new patient.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bruno Walter chamber music
/Like many other conductors, Bruno Walter tried his hand at composing. He was a famously reserved person, but does his music give anything away?
Read MoreBook Review: Ghost Talkers
/The heroine of Mary Robinette Kowal's enchanting new novel is doing her part for the WWI war effort - by debriefing the spirits of soldiers killed on the battlefield
Read MoreBook Review: The Nix
/The life of the main character in Nathan Hill's stunning debut novel is turned upside-down when the madwoman on the nightly news turns out to be his mother.
Read MoreBook Review: Dawn of the Dog
/A new book takes a revisionist look at the evolutionary history of the dog.
Read MoreBook Review: The Story of Egypt
/A new book tells the history of ancient Egypt, from the mists of pre-history to the familiar tale of Cleopatra
Read MoreBook Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction
/The latest entry in the epic "Year's Best Science Fiction" series by editor Gardner Dozois features everything from Venusian monsters to telepathic food - with stops along the way for planetary warfare, quantum piracy, and the end of the world as we know it.
Read MoreNeither Entirely Real Nor Imagined
/"The Wonderments" allow the hero of Bill Broun's spellbinding debut novel Night of the Animals to talk to the animals in Regent's Park Zoo. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
/According to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.
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