Pros and Cons
Colson Whitehead's latest novel is proof that good things come in threes. The acclaimed writer may not have followed up his two Pulitzer Prize-winning books The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys with another weighty offering of fact-based fiction about racial persecution, but he has, instead, now added a third and final volume to his series of New York-set crime capers starring Ray Carney—a respectable furniture salesman and part-time fence. The first installment, Harlem Shuffle (2021), …


