Mind the Gap
/A new historical thriller hearkens back to the sensation novels of the 1860s, offering up a twisty tale of murder and madness. But can it live up to its predecessors?
Read MoreJung-leland
/Bruce Springsteen's therapist was one of the inspirations for his memoir Born to Run. Does the book help him make sense of his transformation from wild and innocent rock 'n' roller to millionaire icon?
Read MoreBook Review: Montaigne
/An English-language translation of a monumental biography of the founder of modern essay form urges readers to remember the man, not the legend.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bernstein Symphonies
/Leonard Bernstein's symphonies have long been neglected in favor of his popular work, but Marin Alsop breathes new life into them by surpassing the composer himself.
Read MoreBook Review: Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms
/Down below the sidewalks of London, a warren of secret rooms housed the war effort while bombs were falling on the city; a lavish new book tours the war rooms.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Weinberg Chamber Symphonies
/Formerly unknown, Mieczylaw Weinberg stature as a composer is growing--deservedly so, as these chamber symphonies attest.
Read MoreBook Review: Three Days in January
/As a new book about Eisenhower and Kennedy makes clear, transitions of presidential power, especially between rival parties, have always been testy.
Read MoreBook Review: The House of the Dead
/Long before the Soviet gulag, Russian dissidents, criminals, and political exiles were sent to the vast frozen wasteland of Siberia. A grim new book tells their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: The Egyptians
/The Egyptian Revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath forms the subject of a riveting new book by a journalist and keen-eyed witness.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Shostakovich concertos
/Despite how they're often played, Shostakovich's piano concertos weren't intended for virtuoso performers. Boris Giltburg tries an originalist approach.
Read MoreBook Review: Falling Ill
/From the late and much-honored poet CK Williams, one final work
Read MoreBook Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
/The famed writer of "You Know Me Al" was also a life-long prolific deadline writer. An invaluable new book collects the journalism of Ring Lardner.
Read MoreBook Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Guglielmo Ratcliff
/The release of a long-forgotten opera proves, finally, that Pietro Mascagni was not a one hit wonder.
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: Son of Superman
/In the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreIt Happened in Two Mills
/A keenly felt nostalgia mixes with themes of race, loneliness, and forgiveness in Jerry Spinelli's latest novel, The Warden's Daughter.
Read MoreThe Magus of Dreams
/Victorian author Thomas DeQuincey will forever be known mainly as the author of the fantastic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but a vivid new biography introduces readers to the man behind the masterpiece.
Read MoreThe Mermaids of Kansas City
/a poem
Read MoreStolen From Life: An Interview with Jack Kohl
/Michael Johnson interviews Jack Kohl, a Juilliard-trained pianist who also finds challenge and inspiration in writing fiction.
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