Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Boris Giltburg
/Pianist Boris Giltburg's somber, beautiful new album shows a heartening independent spirit. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Great Sea
/David Abulafia's big book - now in paperback - tackles a subject pivotal to huge swaths of human history: the Mediterraean, that watery intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Read MoreBook Review: The Kraus Project
/The famous novelist presents some essays by a pre-war Viennese intellectual and helps us all to understand those works.
Read MoreJFK in the Senate
/Before he became one of America's most famous presidents, John Kennedy was a hot-shot senator and a photogenic winner of the Pulitzer Prize. But did the Senate years help to form the Oval Office years?
Read MoreBook Review: Jefferson and Hamilton
/A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Diana Damrau
/The songs to My Fair Lady, sung in German? Just one of the idiosyncrasies of Diana Damrau's irresistible new vocal album.
Read MoreBook Review: Dirty Words in Deadwood
/The cult favorite HBO western inspires an anthology of essays devoted to the show's most outrageous feature: its language (foul and otherwise)
Read MoreIn Search of Lost Tirades
/Jonathan Franzen has translated and annotated a collection of essays by Karl Kraus, the Austrian polemicist known as the Great Hater and one of the signal curmudgeonly influences behind Franzen's fiction.
Read MoreOctober 2013 Issue
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Read MoreA Chip off the Old Bwana
/How do you follow up on creating Tarzan of the Apes? You give the Ape-Man a son, stranding him in the jungle, and sending him out on hair-raising adventures of his own. And if you're lucky, a legendary comic book artist will come along and draw it all.
Read MoreConnect the Dots
/What kind of reader would she be, our Poetry Editor asks, if she didn't allow herself to be susceptible to Ange Mlinko's sublime, piercing unreason?
Read MoreAn Inglorious Life
/Elizabeth Gilbert’s ambitious novel imagines the life of a 19th-century woman botanist, as insightful as Darwin but lost to history. It’s an interesting project, and a worthy one, but does the novel live up to its premise?
Read MoreShow Me the Body
/Throughout its history, humankind has been both terrified by and obsessed with monsters - hence the booming 'cryptid' industry, traversing the globe in search of legendary beasts like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. A new book looks at the science and psychology behind our modern bogeymen.
Read MoreThe Spirit of '79
/Two thousand years ago, a bustling seaside town on the Naples coast was engulfed in a sudden, unthinkable catastrophe: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in hot ash and froze it in death for two millennia. Can any museum exhibit capture the irresistible fascination of such a stark human drama?
Read MoreA Certain Profit Situation
/a poem
Read MoreBeyond Thought
/The style of Clarice Lispector's unconventional and uneasy fiction was driven by both social anxiety and physical pain. How did this transubstantiation take place?
Read MoreThe Modern Mechanism
/Thick with atmosphere, lush with visual design, and sporting more than a few influences of steampunk, "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs" is a video game Karl Marx might have played - and even enjoyed.
Read MoreSomebody Ate Her Gerbil
/Fearless reporter Renata Adler's novel "Speedboat" has been stirring debate and controversy since it was published in 1976; now, in a new reprint from the New York Review of Books, it retains its power to shock, subvert, and just maybe seduce.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “It is always easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission”
/Never Go Back, Lee Child’s 18th Jack Reacher adventure, is a winner; plus, the second in a nifty new series, Mortal Bonds by Michael Sears, redefines “follow the money.”
Read MoreFrom the Archives: In the Pocket of Satan
/A girl, a widow, a matriarch, a mother, a businesswoman, and a minister's slave: a new history traces the Salem Witch Trials through the lives of six women who paid dearly for their proximity to one of the most mysterious incidents in American history
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