Daniel Mendelsohn on music.
Literature and film
Issue #96 focuses on process.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s 40-year-old essay is the most modern music book of the year.
Teju Cole’s musical obsessions.
What music says about the history of colonialism in Brazil.
Oscar Edelstein’s curiosity and defiance.
Songs from a gay Australian childhood and youth.
Explorations of experimental music with Jennie Gottschalk.