Strivers Row

And here's another one (sorry, sometimes things just line up a certain way). Here's a brief description of the book:

"Kevin Baker plunges audaciously into the world of Harlem in the early 1940's to imagine the lives of two African-American men."

One of these men happens to be Malcolm Little, aka Malcolm X. So is it just me, or does the collage from the Times do a great job of evoking Harlem and black culture of the 1940s, while the book cover might simply be adequate?

The Times illustration is by Ed Lam; I think this is his stuff.