A global celebration of three of the most dynamic and starkly original artists working today. Music & Literature's second issue features new literature on and by László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr, and Max Neumann. This special volume presents, for the first time in English, an extensive selection of newly translated fiction spanning Krasznahorkai's 26-year career alongside an array of new appreciations and essays on his work by top critics and artists from around the world; a portfolio of photographs by cinematographer Gábor Medvigy, taken on-set while filming Tarr's masterpiece Sátántangó; and 24 new paintings by renowned German artist Max Neumann, who previously collaborated with Krasznahorkai on the chapbook Animalinside (New Directions Publishing & Sylph Editions, 2011). An essential volume for the aficionado and the casual fan alike, Issue 2 brings together an international community for a hearty nod to three of our finest living artists.

Music & Literature No. 2

László Krasznahorkai

Max Neumann

Bela Tarr

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Music & Literature 3 brings to light the life's work of three artists who have to date been denied--by geography, by language, and by politics--their rightful positions on the world stage. The Australian writer Gerald Murnane, a rumored Nobel Prize candidate, has been deemed 'a genius on the level of Beckett' by Teju Cole, who opens this issue with a spirited exchange of long letters with the Aussie great. For the first time, Murnane's entire catalog is introduced by top writers and critics, and we glimpse his three remarkable archives, which the author insists will remain unpublished until after his death. 'The Interior of Gaaldine,' the infamous text that explains his fourteen-year absence from the world of fiction, rounds out more than 120 pages of new material on and by one of our finest yet little-known Anglophone writers. The issue's second half is devoted to the Slovak composer Vladimír Godár and his unlikely collaborator, the Moravian violinist-singer Iva Bittová, who honed their crafts under the pall of the Communist regime and who only in recent years have begun cultivating worldwide audiences. Now, for the first time, Godár's artistic writings as well as his manuscripts are available in English, alongside a portfolio of photographs and an oral history of Bittová's career, as told by some of her closest collaborators and artistic partners.

Music & Literature No. 3

Teju Cole

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Hari Kunzru

Gerald Murnane

Vladimír Godár

Iva Bittová

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More than 40 writers, musicians, and translators from around the world gather for Music &amp; Literature's celebration of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger and her partner, composer-double bassist Barry Guy, and American poet Mary Ruefle. The number opens with an intimate portrait of the Brazilian legend, assembled through premiere folios of Lispector's letters and paintings, as well as her candid final interview. New essays by her translators and other top critics and authors round out this 100-page section devoted to Hurricane Clarice. Meanwhile, the musical galaxies of Maya Homburger and Barry Guy are unveiled through new twin (and entwined) interviews, a portfolio of Guy's graphic scores, and a special Bach Pilgrimage Portfolio, to which the legendary Sir John Eliot Gardiner lends his voice. Finally, this edition includes the first comprehensive appreciation of Mary Ruefle's entire career to date, with new poetry and erasures by the contemporary Dickinson. Our fourth and most ambitious number is a collection that, in its cumulative synergy, captures the wild intelligences of four indispensable artists of the past century.

Music & Literature No. 4

Clarice-Lispector

Mary Ruefle

Maya Homburger

Barry Guy

John Eliot Gardiner

Benjamin Moser

Music &amp; Literature's most ambitious and daring volume yet sheds light on the exquisite interiorities of three artists whose catalogs are too often defined by single works or perceptions. Headlining the issue is Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose 140-page section collects, for the first time in English, an expansive portfolio of her writings on music and convenes the maestro's closest collaborators, including internationally renowned writers, conductors, stage directors, musicians, and other artists, for a celebratory retrospective on her thirty-five years of music making. Meanwhile, Stig Saeterbakken's highly provocative career--both on and off the page--incited outrage and earned him a fervent readership across Scandinavia prior to his suicide in 2012. The Norwegian's relentless and public exploration of his deepest anxieties posed unanswerable questions and brought into stark relief paradoxes of existence. Presented here are three of the last essays Saeterbakken wrote, ever searching and ever fearless, while his longtime publishers, editors, and colleagues turn their own eyes inward to reveal the value of this consummate artist whose works demand attention. Finally, Can Xue has been called China's answer to Kafka, a claim that is refuted in this portfolio; rather, through two newly translated short stories--one of which is narrated by a speck of dust!--and a series of tributes, her writings are regaled for their raw and sensual qualities, and the artist is revealed as an intense original, deserving of her own status, her own name, and worthy of acclaim today and for many years to come.

Music & Literature no. 5

Music &amp; Literature no. 6 champions the work of three artists poised for an international breakthrough: Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, Ukrainian composer Victoria Polevá, and Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic. An aura of almost legendary prestige surrounds the short life of Alejandra Pizarnik, who, though haunted by doubt and depression, left behind an oeuvre by turns searing, tragic, playful, and erotic. Her portfolio includes 100 pages of previously untranslated prose, diary entries, and letters, plus new appreciations from, among others, Enrique Vila-Matas and César Aira, who writes that Pizarnik was 'not only a great poet, she was the greatest, and the last.' Equally uncompromising in her artistry is Victoria Polevá, who has written music for many of the world's leading soloists and ensembles while building a reputation as a major cultural figure in Eastern Europe. Though Polevá's music has yet to reach Western audiences, her illustrious contemporaries from around the world attest in verse, in correspondence, and in oils to her singular vision, which the maestro expresses at length in her first major interview in English. Her musical writings on mentors Arvo Pärt and Valentin Silvestrov round out a remarkable portfolio. Since the break-up of her native Yugoslavia, Dubravka Ugresic's fiction has revolved around questions of exile and identity, while her caustic and brilliantly insightful criticism has taken on literature, Yugostalgia, and contemporary hypocrisy in all its forms. Alongside an exclusive interview and a newly-translated work of fiction, appearing here for the first time in any language, this portfolio offers contributions by Ugresic's translators Michael Henry Heim and Damion Searls, as well as a critical overview of her prolific career.

Music & Literature, No. 6

SUSAN SONTAG

Dubravka Ugrešić

Julio Cortázar

Joseph Brodsky

Taylor Davis-Van Atta

Daniel Medin

Gidon Kremer

ANA BECCIU

Cesar-Aira

Enrique-Vila-Matas

Damion Searls

Alejandra Pizarnik

Victoria Poleva

The seventh volume of Music &amp; Literature opens with a celebration of the prolific Welsh novelist, music critic, and librettist Paul Griffiths. Two exclusive interviews and generous selections of his musical and creative writings offer insight into Griffiths' extensive career and his many sources of inspiration, from Shakespeare to Japanese Noh theatre. Recent collaborations, including the song cycle 'let me tell you,' based on Griffiths Oulipian novel containing only the words spoken by Ophelia in Hamlet, and Gulliver, based on Jonathan Swift's classic satire, receive particular attention, with contributions from partners Barbara Hannigan and James Wood, among others, testifying to Griffiths status as one of the Anglophone world's premiere--and under-acknowledged--talents. Meanwhile, Ann Quin published just four novels before her death at the age of thirty-seven, but in the decades since has come to be recognized as one of the most original voices of her no-longer-modern, not-quite-postmodern generation. Collected here, alongside a pair of Quin's provocative and darkly humorous short stories, are new critical appreciations of her life's work by leading contemporary writers, who pay tribute to Quin's enduring legacy and influence. Finally, the compositions and performances of Russian-born artist Lera Auerbach have filled the most prestigious halls and stages around the world, while her visual art has filled some of its most renowned spaces. From the opening act of her play 'Gogol,' which was staged by the legendary John Neumeier, to appreciations of her poetry, this portfolio surveys the work of a genuine Renaissance woman.

Music & Literature no. 7

Paul Griffiths

Oli Hazzard

Ann Quin

Lera Auerbach

Danielle Dutton

Juliet Jacques

Kate Zambreno

Music &amp; Literature Issue 8 (2017)

Music & Literature no. 8

ALEX ROSS

Ben Ratliff

Mark Turner

Eric Chevillard

UNSUK CHIN

Jordan Stump

Jeremy M. Davies

Lydia Salvayre

Alyson Waters

Music &amp; Literature no. 9 features immersive portfolios on two artists. The Swiss-German writer Peter Bichsel is one of the best short-prose stylists of his generation and has earned a devoted following in the German-speaking world for his charming, melancholic stories-yet his work is all but unpublished in English. This portfolio announces the great writer in our own literature through a generous selection of works spanning his entire career, from his short fiction and an excerpt from his enigmatic first novel, translated by Michael Hofmann, to his incisive and often poignant newspaper columns in Lydia Davis's translation. Candid interviews and a compilation of essays offer insight into the nature of Bichsel's artistry as it has developed over nearly six decades, highlighting the themes to which he returns time and again: the peculiar history and attitudes of the Swiss, the struggle for inner freedom and the rights of minorities, and the pleasures of reading. A special tribute by Claire-Louise Bennett rounds out this comprehensive introduction to one of Europe's most outstanding contemporary storytellers. Over the past twenty years, Canadian poet Sylvia Legris has quietly built a remarkable, multilayered body of work worthy of deep exploration and appreciation. An artist of relentless evolution and experimentation, Legris's poetics compress and expand, infusing elements of dance, botany, and human machinery into new structures and imagery that is at once wildly imaginative and deeply visceral. Alongside a retrospective selection of her poetry, capped by a series of new and unpublished works, is an exclusive conversation with fellow pioneer Will Alexander that dives into the mystery of "poetic ignition." Essays and tributes by several leading young poets imagine-and reimagine-the prismatic Legris across her many forms and permutations, completing our most eclectic portfolio to date.

Music & Literature no. 9

Sylvia Legris

peter-bichsel

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