When exploring string instruments, many people wonder about the difference between viola and violin. While these two instruments belong to the same family and share similar construction, they possess ...

The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.

I remember reading in either Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' or 'Homo Deus' that it is possible to estimate a person's ...

Il Genoa di De Rossi cerca riscatto contro una squadra che in difesa ha già dimostrato più di qualche lacuna. Solo il Venezia (13) ha subito più reti della Fiorentina (12, al pari del Monza) in questo ...

NASCAR.com’s Pat DeCola ranks the 16 Cup Series drivers in The Chase presented by Mobil 1 after Chase Briscoe’s win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and before Sunday’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (3 ...

The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises What is the role of art in an artist’s life? Should you commit ...

An inventive book in which each chapter is named after the sections in a partita and serves same role in creating the whole piece.

Barbara Kingsolver writes the type of quips you want to scribble onto a Post-it note and revisit because you’re glad someone else said it better. A hallmark of the decorated novelist’s work is her ...

In “Partita,” a former piano prodigy is sent reeling into the past after she receives a call from the man who derailed her ambitions. Credit...Kristina Tzekova Supported by By Jeff Giles Jeff Giles’s ...

Barbara Kingsolver has a big, beautiful piano in the living room of her house in southwestern Virginia. And on the piano there are stacks of the music she's working on — books that she's had since ...

From an early age, the protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver’s sublime and sensual novel, “Partita,” has been a survivor. Livia Bohusz has weathered her mother’s resentment and abuse, her beloved ...

In his 1936 autobiography, Igor Stravinsky wrote, “I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a ...