narrative

Eric Zimmerman whips "four naughty concepts" into disciplinary shape.

Against the notion that music is the most abstract of art forms, Olivia Block thinks of music as a language with its own vocabulary of sounds, patterns, rhythms, notes. On the day of a performance in Kyoto, Japan, these reflections alter Block's sense of her own language, English, deconstructed by Japanese advertisements, tee-shirts, "American" candy-bar wrappers, and text-cell phones.

Jill Walker's encounter with a participatory, and vaguely sinister, online narrative.

Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.

Regarding a monumental work on race, time, and classical music that does not lose sight of individual, localized lives.