“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

The Broadway hit musical “& Juliet” began the same way many great jukebox musicals have begun — with a writer listening to lots of music in the dark after concussing himself on a kitchen cabinet at a ...

Music and language share overlapping networks in the brain, particularly in areas responsible for auditory processing and rhythm. By learning an instrument, the brain is trained to distinguish pitch, ...