Book Review: The Best of Youth
/In Michael Dahlie's new novel, an idle young millionaire ghost-writes a book for an arrogant Hollywood star
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's CD of the Week - Andrzej Panufnik
/The works of Polish emigre Andrzej Panufnik course with passion and political subtext. Norman Lebrecht reviews a new recording of Symphonies 7 and 8.
Read MoreBook Review: Money Run
/She's a master thief who wants to rob the world's richest man; he's a master assassin who wants to kill the world's richest man - what happens when they run headlong into each other in a glass-and-steel death-trap?
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel
/The adorable little candy-seeking moppets from the folk tale are all grown up and exceedingly well-armed in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
Read MoreBook Review: The Making of the First World War
/A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes
Read MoreBook Review: Antarctica
/Earth's frozen, forbidding continent is the subject of Gabrielle Walker's latest book
Read MoreBook Review: The Illicit Happiness of Other People
/The death of a talented teenage artist spins his family and friends into turmoil in Manu Joseph's incredibly accomplished second novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fall of the Stone City
/In the latest Ismail Kadare novel to be translated into English, an Albanian doctor invites the invading Nazis to an elaborate dinner at his house - but what exactly happens that night, to the strains of Schubert?
Read MoreBook Review: The World Until Yesterday
/Until comparatively recently, historically speaking, mankind existed in small hunter-gatherer societies without states or agriculture. Best-selling author Jared Diamond's latest book examines the possible up-side of those primitive edens.
Read MoreCD of the Week - Dinu Lipatti
/Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti died of cancer at age 33, but left behind a treasure trove of adventurous, intellectually satisfying piano music. Norman Lebrecht reviews a new double-CD of Lipatti's work.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Gil Kane Superman
/DC Comics collects the 1980s adventures of the Man of Steel, as drawn by the legendary Gil Kane!
Read MoreBook Review: Access All Areas
/A generous anthology collects the work of one of the greatest travel-writers of our day
Read MoreComics: Essential X-Men 11
/Marvel's X-Men reprint series reaches some epoch-defining issues
Read MoreBook Review: The Boy
/In Lara Santoro's new novella, an older woman falls head-over-heels into a physical passion for a younger man - with consequences that threaten to tear her life apart
Read MoreCD of the Week - Elgar, Carter: Cello Concertos
/Jacqueline du Pré’s performance of Elgar's cello concerto is so legendary that few artists have dared to challenge it. Now Alisa Weilerstein does so, in an astonishing new recording. Norman Lebrecht reviews
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
/The controversial new movie about the hunt for bin Laden - and the role torture might have played in that hunt
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Rome and Rhetoric
/The rhetoric of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar might inflame you, it might make you mad - but does Garry Wills o'ershoot himself in his analysis of it all?
Read MoreBook Review: A Jew Among Romans
/A new - and forgiving? - look at the ancient Jewish historian whose very name has been hated for two thousand years.
Read MoreBook Review: A Memory of Light
/The legendary fantasy series at long last comes to its conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: The Midwife's Tale
/A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder
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