In Paperback: The Long Road to Antietam
/The bloodiest day in United States history is the subject of Richard Slotkin's riveting book, now out in paperback
Read MoreIn Paperback: 2312
/In Kim Stanley Robinson's epic space opera - now out in paperback - the mankind of two centuries hence has conquered space and colonized the solar system, but as usual, it carries its own dark side wherever it goes
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Authority
/A new hardcover reprint presents a pivotal comic book run to new fans and old fans alike. Open Letters talks with its go-to comics expert Justin Hickey about the definitive story arc of "The Authority"
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Paul Ben-Haim
/A new album of the chamber music of one of Israel's foremost composer's, Paul Ben-Haim. Norman Lebrecht listens.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Monsters University
/Pixar's latest is a prequel: the story of how Mike and Sully from "Monsters, Inc." first met
Read MoreBook Review: Disraeli - The Romance of Politics
/Tradition has it that Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote his novels to make a name (and a fortune) for himself with the British public, but a thrilling new book wonders if he didn't also do it to re-shape reality itself - in his favor.
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Malice of Fortune
/Two of the most famous names of the Italian Renaissance - Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci - team up to untangle a series of horrific murders!
Read MoreBook Review: Lexicon
/Mere words have the power to kill, literally, in Max Barry's new thriller. Who welds them? And how worthy are Barry's own words?
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Chopin, Dutilleux
/Chopin and Dutilleux: two composers, separated by a century and more, are joined by a city and its culture. Norman Lebrecht reviews a new album of their preludes.
Read MoreInterview: Rosecrans Baldwin
/Author Rosecrans Baldwin talks about writing, and Paris - and writing about Paris
Read MoreBook Review: Horace and Me
/A columnist for the Financial Times looks at what the Roman poet Horace has meant to him over the years
Read MoreBook Review: Narwhals
/There's much more to the narwhal than its legendary corkscrew horn; a new book delves into their fascinating natural history - and the looming threat they face from global warming.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Internship
/It's a movie about an internship at Google: 2.3 billion Google users are commanded to like it.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Conrad Tao
/One of EMI Classics' final albums, by 19-year-old Conrad Tao, is an instant collectible. But how is the music?
Read MoreBook Review: The Ides of April
/Fans of Lindsey Davis' long-running mystery series starring ancient Roman P. I. Falco now get the first volume in a new series featuring his intrepid daughter following in his footsteps
Read MoreBook Review: The Silence of Animals
/The popular philosopher returns to the ideas that made him famous: that man is an animal, that optimism is misguided, and that the very idea of progress is just a re-heated left-over from the zeals of Christianity.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: On Exile
/The signature work by one of the prickly fathers of the Italian Renaissance humanism gets its inaugural print edition in the latest offering from Harvard's magnificent I Tatti Renaissance Library
Read MoreBook Review: Through the Perilous Fight
/In a stirring new account of the burning of the White House and the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, the individual men and women of the conflict step into the spotlight in all their very human contradictions
Read MoreEsther Williams
/In Memoriam
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Now You See Me
/A band of stage magicians skilled at all kinds of illusions are suspected of pulling off an all-too-real bank heist in Louis Leterrier's new movie
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