The Black Album by means of Hanif Kureishi (Scribner, 287 pp $2200) -- What a dexterous clever man. In his screenplays and first attempt novel The Buddha of Suburbia, Kureishi could be faulted for glibness or ethnic caricature, on the contrary never dull prose...until now. Curiously flat, Album roll ons yet another Candide-like protagonist end the wringer of sociopolitical upheaval -- this time in late-'80s England. Kureishi still manages hilarious throwaways, like this description of a wealthy white Marxist professor's stutter: "Yeah, it draw near on since the Communist states
