Walton Muyumba is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009). A writer and professor, Muyumba's criticism appears regularly in The Oxford American and The Dallas Morning News.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Zadie Smith’s Rhythmic Play in Shadow and Light
Walton Muyumba on Zadie Smith's latest novel....

Insistence
Assumption isn’t an airline read or beach vacation novel; it’s a sturdy literary equation....
