A Black WWII veteran becomes enraptured by a carnival performer in the sometimes glimmering but mostly plodding latest from Jones (The Birdcatcher). Buddy Ray Guy, who fought in France as a teenager, ...

American literature celebrates seekers. Think of the iconoclastic characters from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” or Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer.” These restless, often white, literary wanderers search ...