Books on the human relationships complicating the soloist’s life.
Literature and film
Alan Hollinghurst on music.
Four new books bring music back to the world.
What opera should be learning from the movies.
The novelist Garth Greenwell on singing, literature, and the physicality of language.
Daniel Mendelsohn on music.
Issue #96 focuses on process.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s 40-year-old essay is the most modern music book of the year.