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This edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion opens with a pasodoble written by Santiago Lope, a Spanish composer who lived from 1871 to 1906. At age 6, Lope joined the village band playing the piccolo. One day, a military band visited his village and the band director noticed Lope, resulting in his being sent to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid where he studied violin, harmony, and composition. At age 15, he became a member of Madrid’s Apollo Theater orchestra. After becoming the prin...

With the 150th anniversary of her birth last year, “her reputation has never been higher than it is today,” says author Benjamin Taylor.

After alienating his high society friends by exposing their private scandals in Esquire Magazine, Truman Capote sets the record straight by interviewing his favorite topic: himself.

In January, the Wilson Public Library launches its 10th One Book One Cozad program with the selection of “The Floor of the Sky” by Pamela Carter Joern.

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

Benjamin Taylor’s "Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather," like his other biography on Marcel Proust, integrates the subject’s homosexuality, communicating its centrality in the authors’ lives.

“Chasing Bright Medusas,” a new biography by Benjamin Taylor, aims not to uncover new facts but to provide a concise introduction to the novelist.

The commerce and technology writer shares her recent picks for nonfiction books about China, the history of modern science, and Bruce Springsteen.

Enter to win one of 5 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Aug 15-Sep 14, 2021. Enter to win 1 of 5 copies of An Impossible Promise by Jude Deverau...

O Pioneers! (1913) and My Ántonia (1918), two novels about Nebraska, where she attended school and spent much of her childhood. Her re-creation of what is now the Midwest is rooted in her own family’s experience moving west from the Shenandoah Valley in 1883, and her writing is preoccupied with the larger American experiment of uprooting and then re-establishing civilization. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours, about a Nebraska farmer’s son, but her settings ...