GANGS OF NEW YORK
Sep 24, 2021
3 minutes
By Colin Grant
‘Nothing came close,” Claude McKay observed a century ago, “to the hot, syncopated fascination of Harlem,” with its overcrowded tenements, star-studded theatres, numbers runners, rag time and jazz. At the start of Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead’s dazzling new thriller, it’s 40 years on from the area’s 1920s renaissance. Gone are the hi-de-ho days of Cab Callowa y’s orchestra. Up at Hotel Theresa, the “Waldorf of Harlem”, you’re more likely
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