Review: Lawrence Jackson on James McBride

Fiddler at the Dark Town Strutters’ Ball: The Ligaments of Fairy Tale

There is an ancient legend of urban strife between blacks and Jews that reached its Golden Age in the early 1960s with Norman Podhoretz and James Baldwin and kept chugging along through Malcolm X to Gavin Cato and Yankl Rosenbaum. In James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, …