Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Pictures of America
/What would Natalie Dessay find in a collection of American songs that others have not found before?
Read MoreBook Review: True Faith and Allegiance
/A Canadian businessman is more than he seems in the latest big addition to the Tom Clancy fictional universe
Read MoreBook Review: If Our Bodies Could Talk
/A handy new books ranges over the whole breadth of human aches and pains and losses and gains - and provides the science behind it all.
Read MoreBook Review: Tracking Gobi Grizzlies
/The world's most endangered population of grizzly bears is the subject of a powerful, haunting new book
Read MoreBook Review: I Contain Multitudes
/If who we are includes the multitudes of microscopic organisms that we house and feed, which in turn help regulate our immunity and sculpt our destinies, then what constitutes the individual?
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bach complete keyboard works
/Amid the seasonal rock fall of weird-shaped box sets and unopenable recorded turkeys, one project stands out as indispensable in both musical and moral dimensions.
Read MoreBook Review: The Pursuit of Power
/A master historian analyzes the tumultuous century that gave rise to the modern era
Read MoreShirley Hazzard
/Shirley Hazzard
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
/Poor Simon Lewis has been a human, and he's been a vampire - and now he's a student at the forbidding Shadowhunter Academy, in the latest chapter of Cassandra Clare's ongoing YA fantasy series
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Alternative Record of the Year
/Most critics pick their album of the year from the ones they reviewed over the past 52 weeks. I’ve decided to choose from the ones I haven’t, the ones that for one reason or other failed to make the weekly cut
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Occupation
/For the thousands of US and Allied troops who were ordered to remain behind and help rebuilt countries the Allies had just defeated, their war was extended and altered. A new book dissects the on-the-ground realities attending the aftermath of conquest.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man with the Poison Gun
/The gripping true story of celebrated KGB assassin - and defector.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Henselt piano works
/Adolph von Henselt was a follower of fashion, not a leader of trends, but as Daniel Grimwoods latest release shows, he is nonetheless very much worth a listen.
Read MoreBook Review: Rasputin
/The mesmerizing lunatic who grafted himself onto the Romanov dynasty in its final decades gets a highly detailed new biography.
Read MoreA Slow, Inquiring Narration
/A translation of Peter Handke's latest novel shows the author exploring the essence and possibilites of narration.
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2016
/In our regular year-end feature, Open Letters editors and special guests look back at some of the books that made memorable impressions in 2016
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2016 Continues
/Our year in reading continues....
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreThe Man Moses
/He challenged tyrants, parted waters, and bickered with God Almighty. Zach Rabiroff reviews a new biography of the Biblical prophet Moses.
Read MoreAfter Ester
/a poem
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