I’ve got two friends who swear that 15 minutes into any episode of The Wire, without seeing the credits, they could tell whether or not that episode’s screenwriter was Richard Price. Rather than his earlier thrillers, Lazarus Man bears a closer resemblance to James McBride’s Deacon King Kong, also an ode to a New York neighborhood on the brink of …
On the Shelf Harlem Shuffle By Colson Whitehead Doubleday: 336 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Cool It Baby,” one of three connected stories that make up Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “Harlem Shuffle,” opens in the aftermath of this eruption, when furniture dealer/fence …
