Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Fairy Tales
/A batch of bedtime stories, wickedly recited by top actors, interspersed with music derived from the selfsame fairy tales. Why had no one thought of this before?
Read MoreIn Paperback: Catching Fire
/The second volume in Suzanne Collins' phenomenally popular series is at long last available in paperback
Read MoreBook Review: Alexander the Great
/The translator of Oxford's superb new edition of Arrian's book on Alexander the Great maintains that it should be appreciated at least as much for its literary merit as for its historical value - which would have pleased Arrian immensely, and which may in fact be true.
Read MoreBook Review: Ancient Israel
/The violent, heroic Wild West of the Bible is given a magnificent new translation and commentary
Read MoreClassics Reissued: World War Z!
/In advance of the movie, Max Brooks' epic zombie novel (now with the customary ugly movie cover) is given a big reprint run in search of even more fans ...
Read MoreInk a Dinka Don't
/Is close reading disappearing? And is that the most pressing problem facing universities? Terry Eagleton's latest, How to Read Literature is a plea for a return to what made the humanities worth knowing.
Read MoreFull of High Sentence
/Richard Ford likes complexity, and he filled his novel, The Sportswriter, with sonnet-like weights and counterweights of tangled and gorgeous intricacy. As Spencer Lenfield's reading demonstrates, single sentences can contain worlds.
Read MoreKeeping Up With The Tudors: Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror
/A debut novel of alternate history spins out one of the most tantalizing hypotheticals of the past: what if Anne Boleyn had managed to give King Henry VIII a healthy male heir? Some of the answers - and some of the resulting mysteries - may surprise you.
Read MoreThe Wandering Page
/Modernist poet P. K. Page may be the most important Canadian author you've never heard of. An impressive new biography, replete with examples of Page's poetry and prose, seeks to remedy that.
Read Morewild swans
/a poem
Read MoreAll the Absolutely Fabulous Gatsbys
/Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster is merely the newest Great Gatsby for film or television--four adaptations before it attempted to capture the dazzle and pathos of the classic. Matt Sadler us on a tour of West Egg across the decades.
Read MoreHome from the Raj
/Nice as it is to revisit old friends, readers of Jane Gardam’s latest may end up wondering if all the most interesting things happened somewhere else, at some other time.
Read MoreRage and Regulation
/"I hope they pay you well for your obedience, dog" - two new video games explore the parameters of authority and the constraints of law. Doesn't sound like a fun afternoon, but as Phillip Lobo discovers, there are darker pleasures lurking in the fine print of the social contract.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one”
/John le Carré, the pre-eminent spy writer of the 20th century and beyond, dazzles us again with A Delicate Truth. Plus a debut addition to the ranks of the genre, Red Sparrow, might just earn the author Jason Matthews a pat on the back from the master.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy | GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE | Magic II.
/Bohemian Back Bay was as key to Copley Square as aristocratic Back Bay and black artist models figured not only in Sargent's work, but in Fred Holland Day's too.
Read MoreJune 2013 Issue
/"96th Street" by Jeffrey Eaton
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