Who in this world hasn’t come across someone labelled a “weasel”? Novels by Patrick deWitt, Catherine Chidgey, Emily Perkins and Colson Whitehead, along with Selina Mills’s non-fiction book about being blind and a history of British comedy by David Stubbs are reviewed in full below. “He was pushing red meat into his red mouth, and his head was red, and …
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 …
