Are you intrigued by the way some  novelists (such as Nicole Krauss, Zadie Smith, Louise Erdrich, Jennifer Eagan and David Mitchell ) twine together different narrative threads that barely seem to intersect?  Have you ever been fascinated by how contemporary poets (such as Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Jackie Kay) juxtapose multiple voices in their poem cycles?  Have you noticed the trend in twenty-first century cinema (such as The Hours, Crash, and Babel) to move between disparate narrative trajectories?  Are you curious about how this narrative complexity appears in graphic novels, television, memoir, and other types of literature?

If so, you may be interested in the work of this international research group dedicated to the “multi-narrative,” the term we use to describe these and other works of contemporary literature and media that feature multiple, often juxtaposed, narrative threads.