"When the shit hits the fan" is a popular term for end-days enthusiasts, along with TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it). The terms ricocheted inside my brain during the 2020 pandemic ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks about Harlem, hooligans, race and class in the '60s. His novel Harlem Shuffle, now out in paperback, is about a furniture store owner in Harlem who's sideline ...

At the end of Colson Whitehead’s 2021 novel, “Harlem Shuffle,” it’s 1964 and the protagonist, Ray Carney, a “slightly bent” Harlem furniture store owner with a side-hustle fencing stolen jewelry and ...

In his bestselling 2021 crime novel “Harlem Shuffle,” Colson Whitehead introduced the complicated character of Ray Carney, a Black furniture store owner and small-time fence clawing his way into the ...

Colson Whitehead novels have one thing in common: they all cleverly subvert genre expectations. His works include a coming of age novel (Sag Harbor), historical novels inspired by real life horror ...

Little more than 100 pages into Colson Whitehead’s remarkable new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” a sequel to the best-selling “Harlem Shuffle,” Herschel “Uncle Heshie” Lefkowitz, a minor character and an ...