Music and Literature No. 4

More than 40 writers, musicians, and translators from around the world gather for Music & 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.