Swing Time

<h4>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.</h4>

Walton Muyumba

Zadie Smith’s Rhythmic Play in Shadow and Light

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Assumption

Insistence

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.