I wrote about Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy for PopMatters:

Colson Whitehead’s relationship with the crime fiction genre is complicated. Like Jonathan Lethem, another New York-centric writer who came out of less salubrious districts of literature before being accepted into the pantheon, Whitehead has long been one of America’s top-ranked practitioners of critically approved fiction (awards, good speaking gigs, New Yorker appearances). This is what makes his just-concluded “Harlem Trilogy” such a treat and surprise…