Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle is a bravura performance, an immersive, laugh-out-loud, riveting adventure whose narrative energy is boosted by its memorable hero and a highly relevant backdrop of social injustice. Set from 1959 to 1964, the novel comprises three episodes charting the precarious rise of Ray Carney, a self-made man who habitually dips and sometimes dives into New York’s criminal underworld. Read my review here.