Ben Ratliff is running. He’s off the cinder path encircling Van Cortland Park’s Parade Ground, not far from his home in the Bronx, N.Y. He enters the woods. Earphones in, he listens to Eric Dolphy’s ...

My book Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening is an attempt to come to terms with running as a means of hearing music better. Of course, running is good enough on its own; it doesn’t ...