Book Review: Kafka in Love
/Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.
Read MoreCD of the Week - Fazil Say
/The embattled Turkish composer Fazil Say releases a symphony rooted in the sounds of his homeland. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
/Trying to mind his own business, a man at a Yankees game refuses to stand for a singing of "God Bless America" - and all Hell breaks loose.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians
/Santa Claus ... the Easter Bunny ... the Sandman ... the Tooth Fairy ... figures out of children's story-time band together with Jack Frost to fight an evil that threatens childhood itself
Read MoreWonders of the Indian Wilderness
/The many natural worlds of India - and the variety of striking animals who inhabit those worlds - come alive in this enormous illustrated volume
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Alibis
/The latest volume of travel-writing from novelist and memoirist Andre Aciman takes readers from Paris to Rome to Venice to New York and back
Read MoreComics: Nexus Omnibus Volume 1
/Fresh from the halcyon 1980s, the avenging murderer of mass murderers gets a fresh new reprint series
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Cry Havoc
/Dramatized in the pages of this brilliant book, the Nazi state's embracing of accelerated war-production set a dark pattern for the entire world
Read MoreCD of the Week - The Irish Piano
/Too little is known about the importance of Irish composer John Field on 19th century music. An exciting new CD brings his wide influence to light.
Read MoreBook Review: The Pharaoh
/The calm-eyed gold-plated absolute rulers of ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs in all their splendor, are brought to life in a revealing new history.
Read MoreBook Review: Tarzan - The Centennial Celebration
/Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary Ape Man gets a comprehensive visual tribute fit for the king of the jungle
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Persian Literary Humanism
/The vast tapestry of Persian literary history gets a new - and decidedly problematic - overview from one of the subject's greatest modern scholars
Read MoreComics: Legion - Secret Origin
/DC Comics' fan-favorite super-team gets a definitive re-telling of its origin story - or at least provisionally definitive.
Read MoreBook Review: The Clone Sedition
/The warrior-clones in Steven Kent's Clone Republic series can handle just about anything on the battlefield - but what if somebody starts tinkering with their programming?
Read MoreBook Review: Foundation
/the irrepressible novelist, lecturer, and historian takes us on a battle-filled, ale-soaked ransacking tour of England's long pre-Tudor history
Read MoreBook Review: Dialogues of Pontano
/Two witty dialogues by a great Italian Renaissance humanist get a fresh Latin textual overhaul - and their very first English translation.
Read MoreBook Review: Practically Wicked
/An 'ice maiden' social nobody accidentally meets a drunken young viscount at a party - and sparks (eventually, complicatedly) fly!
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare's Common Prayers
/The words of Shakespeare have become a common literary language - but whose words did HE know? Why, the words of Thomas Cranmer, of course.
Read MoreClassics Reprinted: 5001 Nights at the Movies
/A thick masterwork of that maddening maven of the movie screen, Pauline Kael, gets a rock-solid reprint from Picador
Read MoreBook Review: Princess Elizabeth's Spy
/The redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II
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