Colson whitehead

Plus: The one book he's read in the last few months, and how he just finished his next novel.

A runaway slave seeks freedom via subterranean trains in The Underground Railroad, Whitehead's powerful exploration of race and identity in America.

The prizes included reporting on the presidential election; a fatal fire in Oakland, Calif.; and the attempts by the Russian government to assert its power.

Deborah Treisman interviews the author Colson Whitehead about “The Theresa Job,” his story from the July 26, 2021, issue of The New Yorker.

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad isn’t the modern slave narrative it first appears to be. It is something grander and more piercing, a dazzling antebellum anti-myth in which the fugitive’s search for freedom—now so marketable and familiar—becomes a kind of Trojan horse. Crouched within it are the never-ending nightmares of slavery’s aftermath: the bloody disappointments, usually sidelined by film and fiction, that took place between the Civil War and civil rights. In Whitehead’s…

This week, TIME Magazine revealed the cover for Colson Whitehead’s next novel, Harlem Shuffle, which was—like his previous two novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys—designed by…

Just finished "Crook Manifesto," figured I'd give myself credit for it on a Colson Whitehead "ListChallenges" List, and discovered there

Oprah picked 'The Underground Railroad' for book club (and Obama is reading it)

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Politics intruded on this year’s awards ceremony, where Mr. Whitehead, whose novel explores the horrors of American slavery, urged writers to “fight the power.”