Alex Ross on Richard Wagner.
Literature and film
Books on the human relationships complicating the soloist’s life.
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.