Review: In his latest novel 'Harlem Shuffle,' Colson Whitehead's humor and flashes of the old word-wizardry are there; race, while not foregrounded, is woven inextricably into the background; and we are made to care about, and root for, the main character
For some African-American writers, New York’s uptown neighborhood of Harlem represents both a crucible and a showcase.
The book might be called “Colson Comes to Harlem,” because in bringing his singular gifts to this storied place, the novelist turns to the crime genre. He does so at an interesting point in his career. Mr. Whitehead, born in New York in 1969, built a reputation with the novels “The Intuitionist” and “John Henry Days” , works that centered on black characters but put neither character development nor blackness at center stage. Mr.
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