Passions and Shadows or Shadows and Passions (JEF, 2016) is the fourth novel in Frederick Mark Kramer's New York cycle, after Apostrophe/Parenthesis, Ambiguity, and Meanwhile.

The press describes it as Kramer's "deepest swath yet through New York City via the interior monologue of one of its most fascinating denizens." That is the cycle's governing method taken further: the city rendered from inside a single consciousness, in recursive, music-derived form, in the lineage of Musil, Beckett, and the French nouveau roman.

Kramer lives on the Upper West Side and is a novelist, playwright, and amateur violinist. Read it after Meanwhile and before Peripeteia in Slow Motion.