The two-time Oprah's Book Club author reflects on first love, hard-won wisdom, the pressure of following ‘Demon Copperhead,’ and why she feels she's finally in her creative prime.

I want to quit piano.' It comes out in the smallest voice, right in the middle of dinner, during a time when the TV is louder than anything else. It was the first day of a long weekend, and no one had ...

Indian-American singer-songwriter and composer Pridhvi Sunain Zoro takes a deliberately expansive look at contemporary ...

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August Wilson’s epic The Piano Lesson pits brother against sister as the Charles family fights over the fate of their prized heirloom—a hand-carved piano. One wants to get rich off its sale, the other ...

In the past six months, FSHD has destroyed the muscles in columnist Robin Stemple's arms and hands, and now he fears he can't play piano.

On Nov. 18, 1985, Washington quarterback Joe Theismann broke his right tibia and fibula in a home game that ended 23–21.

Because there were some good lessons and some hard lessons. We’ll start with the good. As of this writing, you guys—the ...

It isn't Rocktober quite yet — but it will be by the time most of these 570-plus new LPs, EPs, singles, box sets, ...