Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - The Westminster Legacy
/An extraordinary 40 CD box-set compiles the uncollected glories of the great classical label Westminster Records
Read MoreBook Review: Lincoln's Boys
/The image of Abraham Lincoln - the saintly, martyred Great Emancipator - is a permanent fixture of human culture … but a fascinating new book takes a detailed look at the men who carefully crafted that image
Read MoreBook Review: Who Thinks Evil
/Sherlock Holmes's legendary nemesis Professor Moriarty returns - as super-sleuth hero of a new thriller involving a threat to Queen Victoria's throne and the nation itself
Read MorePhilip Seymour Hoffman
/1967-2014
Read MoreBook Review: An Unnecessary Woman
/In chaos-plagued Beirut, a voracious reader lives an oddly fulfilling secret life
Read MoreLost in Eliot
/The books we reread say a lot about who we are or who we hope to be. They also shape us, as Rebecca Mead discovers in exploring her own long relationship with George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
Read MoreWar, in Panorama
/How could they do it, those young men who, with every reason to live, walked deliberately into machine-gun fire? Joe Sacco gives us a panoramic view of the horror, the labor, and the losses of WWI.
Read More‘I Would Like to Write a Beautiful Prayer’
/When in her twenties, Flannery O'Connor recorded her prayers in a private journal. Newly published, they shed light on her youthful theology, her literary ambitions, and the role of faith in the fiction she was soon to write.
Read MoreA Disproportionate Response
/For years, pioneering blogger Andrew Sullivan was one of the most vocal supporters of the war in Iraq. Time and the war's wretched progress gradually forced him to change his thinking, however, and a new collection of his writings on the subject charts the disillusioning step-by-step.
Read MoreBigger with More and More
/Spike Jonze is the most mainstream of indie directors -- or the most indie of mainstream directors -- and his newest film Her is a triumph of quirky charm and visionary depth. Matt Sadler reviews.
Read MoreTitle Menu: Twoo Wuv
/February would be unremittingly bleak if it weren't for the excuse it gives us to ponder the meaning of love, that many-splendored thing. Our editors offer up their favorite literary treatments.
Read MoreOffice Space
/When we read poetry, we want the transcendence of art: how is that compatible with being at work? A new collection of poems explores the possibilities.
Read MoreFebruary 2014 Issue
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Read MoreThe Sovereign Survivor
/The player is alone in the game, both sole survivor and unquestioned sovereign, but what's at the heart of such games? Phillip Lobo examines the loneliness of the long-distance gamer
Read MoreAnd the Moon Be Still As Bright: Lord Byron in Italy (part 2 of 2)
/In self-imposed exile from England, Lord Byron entered a tempestuous love affair with Italy, renting palaces, swimming the canals of Venice, treating his loved ones abominably, and writing great poetry the whole time. The two-part "Byron in Italy" concludes the epic tale.
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