Books on the human relationships complicating the soloist’s life.
Literature and film
The Coda of Leon Fleisher’s Life is to Search for Truth within Juxtaposition.
Alan Hollinghurst on music.
Four new books bring music back to the world.
Teju Cole’s musical obsessions.
What opera should be learning from the movies.
The novelist Garth Greenwell on singing, literature, and the physicality of language.
Daniel Mendelsohn on music.