Book Review: World War Two
/The military crucible of the 20th Century gets a new hardcover history that can be read in one hour and fifteen minutes.
Read MoreBook Review: Ice Forged
/The first volume in a new fantasy series opens on a world where the everyday background magic on which everybody depends is beginning to flicker out ...
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Alexander of Macedon
/One of the best - and certainly the most contentious - biographies of Alexander the Great gets an attractive new reprint.
Read MoreBook Review: Scenes from Early Life
/A talented novelist writes the story of his husband's family's experiences in war-torn Bangladesh - but is it life, or art?
Read MoreBook Review: The Kassa Gambit
/In the future setting of this promising sci-fi debut, world-hopping humanity finds the last thing it expected: aliens!
Read MoreNew in Paperback: The Last Son of Krypton
/The revered (and reviled) Superman director Richard Donner co-writes an epic story from the Man of Steel's past
Read MoreCD of the Week - Alexandre Tharaud plays Mauricio Kagel
/2013 gets off to a smashing start with Alexandre Tharaud's wild new recording of the works of postmodernist composer Mauricio Kagel. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreTom and Em
/It is said that Thomas Hardy fell deeply in love with his wife, Emma, only after she died. Stephen Akey revisits the stunning, elegiac poetry he wrote in her memory.
Read MoreTea with the Pushkins in Brussels
/Say “Evgeny Onegin” to any educated Russian and you will trigger the first stanza or two of Pushkin's great novel in verse. Now Russia's national poet is finally coming into his own in the West as well.
Read MoreThinking God Knows What: James Joyce and Trieste
/Unsettled and penniless, James Joyce's exile was initially more imrpovised than cunning. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story of his early years on the continent.
Read MoreEntred in a Spacious Court
/Ben Jonson said that the once wealthy and acclaimed Edmund Spenser died "for want of bread"; a new biography tries to disentangle myth from fact, and to make the case for the great poet's relevance today
Read MoreThe Creative Subject
/A conversation with cover artist Aaron Angello
Read MoreBeing Jonathan Harker: recollections of The Dead English
/Not every actor gets the plum role of vampire hunter and romantic lead Jonathan Harker. Steve Brachmann reflects on his part in the Dracula-inspired rock musical The Dead English
Read MoreMoving-Away
/The Hemingway Library has given us a variorum edition of A Farewell to Arms with 39 alternate endings. But how might Hemingway himself have felt about the resulting collage?
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy: Gods of Copley Square – Centerpiece 5
/A rumor of Narnia at Trinity Church prompts two questions. Can a building have a spiritual life? Can a work of art not? Phillips Brooks and the idea of ecstasy
Read MoreHow the Higgs Streams in the Firmament
/What do Christopher Marlowe and the newly discovered Higgs boson particle have in common? Anthony Lock explores the connection, by way of unified fields.
Read MoreJanuary 2013 Issue
/A still from Face (triptych)by Aaron Angello
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