The figure of Lazarus plays an outsize role in John’s Gospel, from Jesus’s friend and host to a career-defining performance as a follower revived from death, peeling away burial swaddling like a ...

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hard to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and ...

Richard Price, acclaimed screenwriter and literary portraitist of urban America, returns with his tenth novel, “Lazarus Man.” Born in the Bronx, Price is well-known for his gritty narratives tracing ...

The novelist Richard Price has said that when he sits down to write, he begins with a precipitating event and that “the last thing” that comes to him is the plot. In the case of his gritty and ...

“Lazarus Man” is the newest exploration of urban life by Richard Price, author of “The Wanderers,” “Clockers,” and “Lush Life.” Price is also the writer for the television series “The Wire,” as well ...

LAZARUS MAN. By Richard Price. FSG. 352 pages. $29. Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hard to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night ...

Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hard to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire” and “The Night Of” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life” and ...