Book Review: The Take-Charge Patient
/A thorough new book aims to give patients more power over their hospital experience
Read MoreCD of the Week: Sounds of the 30s
/The amazing duo of Stefano Bollani and Riccardo Chailly return with the inter-war music of Ravel, Stravinsky, Kurt Weill, and Victor de Sabata.
Read MoreBook Review: The Omnivorous Mind
/An amiable new book lays out the neurology behind food and eating
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
/Mash-up fiction come to the big screen in "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter"!
Read MoreBlu-Ray Review: Evita
/Now on Blu Ray: the 15th Anniversary edition of the award-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Evita"!
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Lost World
/A wonderful new book explores not only the Pleistocene era but the IDEA of the Pleistocene
Read MoreBook Review: Life Everlasting
/A slim, fantastic new book on dead bodies, decay, road kill, and circling vultures! Happy summer!
Read MoreCD of the Week - Arias for Guadagni
/In his CD of the Week recommendation, Norman Lebrecht discovers the brilliant exception to a rule, an aria recital disc worth buying
Read MoreBook Review: At the Mercy of the Queen
/A heartfelt debut novel about an innocent young woman who comes to the court of Henry VIII - except she's Anne Boleyn's cousin, so innocence isn't going to last very long!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Rock of Ages
/The big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway play "Rock of Ages"
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Berlin
/Now in English: a richly researched and deeply moving history of the capital of the Third Reich.
Read MoreBook Review: Exposing the Big Game
/A fiery new book condemns the evils of hunting
Read MoreBook Review: Capital
/In John Lanchester's new novel, a posh London street is hit hard when the housing bubble bursts
Read MoreBook Review: The Laws of the Ring
/"Ultimate Fighter" Urijah Faber talks about life and goals in a new book
Read MoreCD of the Week -- Vivaldi's Chamber Sonatas
/Against all expectations arrives a fantastic new recording of Vivaldi's sonatas, courtesy of L'Estravagante. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Her Highness the Traitor
/A new novel tells the story of two women who played a very dangerous game for the biggest prize of all: the throne of England
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Prometheus
/Ridley Scott's long-awaited sci-fi epic finally arrives!
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of Vengeance
/A fine and fact-filled new account of the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Elusive Victories
/A stunning and insightful new book about the ways modern American presidents go to war, stay at war, and exit war.
Read MoreComics: The Court of Owls
/DC Comics re-creates its entire line of superheroes - including the Caped Crusader himself, Batman
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