Imre Kertesz
/Imre Kertesz
Read MoreBook Review: Eruption
/Nearly 40 years ago, Washington State's Mount St. Helens volcano erupted, killing 57 people and spewing hundreds of tons of molten ash into the atmosphere. A gripping new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Pollination Power
/Birds, bees, mice, bats - a wide array of animals are crucial to the pollination of the plants of the world. A stunning new book shows us their world.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Beethoven, Britten, Haydn: British songs
/Beethoven and Haydn scored Scottish and Welsh ballads for easy money; Britten set folk songs for tours of the front during World War II. Yet the results belie the music's incidental origins.
Read MoreBook Review: Baby Birds
/An enterprising bird-artist takes readers inside the nests of a dozen species
Read MoreBook Review: Louisa
/A smart and lively new biography of the wife of President John Quincy Adams
Read MoreBook Review: John Quincy Adams - Militant Spirit
/A smart and appealingly complex new biography of America's contentious sixth president
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – Debussy, Elgar C violin sonatas
/A new album of rare quality features four works for violin and piano, all composed during World War I, all played flawlessly.
Read MoreBook Review: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
/A new biography of Julia Ward Howe shows how much more there was to her story than the writing of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Read MoreAnita Brookner
/Anita Brookner
Read MoreBook Review: Everyday Renaissances
/An eye-opening new history sheds light on the book-lovers and book-collectors of Renaissance Venice
Read MoreBook Review: Benjamin Franklin in London
/A gripping new book chronicles the years and years iconic Founding Father Ben Franklin spent in the heart of the British Empire
Read MoreBook Review: The Brazen Age
/A boisterous new history of New York City and America in the wake of the Second World War
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – British Clarinet Concertos Vol. 2
/Confiscated by US Customs during World War II, a reconstructed Britten concerto caps a disc of rare British music.
Read MoreBook Review: High Dive
/A 1984 assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forms the unlikely backdrop for Jonathan Lee's US debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Swimmer
/A preoccupation with endings characterizes the tenth collection from poet John Koethe
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of a Prairie Statesman
/The first of a projected two-volume biography of Senator and Democratic Party standard-bearer George McGovern
Read MoreBook Review: The Year of the Runaways
/A complex and moving novel about a trio of young men who leave their native India in search of work
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – Mahler
/Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Mahler 1st is unlike any other - but does this young man's Mahler miss the point? Norman Lebrecht investigates.
Read MoreBook Review: The King's Bed
/A lively new book gives readers a mistress-by-mistress recounting of the reign of Charles II
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