Early in The Melody, Jim Crace's hypnotic and powerful 12th book, the protagonist Alfred Busi – "Mister Al", well known in his town for his music and songs – dines al fresco in a serene corner of the ...

Drummer Jim Black has one of the most immediately recognizable styles in jazz—his wonderfully unhinged playing bears the mark of the rock backbeat, but he makes it special with a clanking, disruptive ...

The role of the French indie-rock chanteuse who steals our hearts now belongs to Paris-based musician Melody Prochet, whose self-titled full-length debut as Melody’s Echo Chamber is a charming and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Jim Crace writes with great flair and inimitable imagination. His previous 11 books are distinguished by their ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Melody. By Jim Crace. The Melody is a work of fiction but on the last page, in the acknowledgements, the two most attractive ...

On the surface Crace’s language seems for the most part unadorned, but the adornment here is in the melody of the prose. By Erica Wagner Jim Crace is a novelist of the liminal. Not for him the steady ...