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...Colson Whitehead’s 2021 novel Harlem Shuffle felt like an exhalation....
...Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto (Hachette Audio, 10 hrs 47 mins) continues the story of Ray Carney, the furniture salesman treading a blurred line between legality and misdemeanour whom we first met in...
...Ours joins a canon of similar works that have appeared in recent years, such as Jesmyn Ward’s recent novel Let Us Descend and Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 The Underground Railroad....
...It hired early feminists like Susan Brownmiller and Vivian Gornick, and later nurtured talented Black writers like Greg Tate, Hilton Als and Colson Whitehead....
...Writers including Colson Whitehead, Ayana Mathis and Ward herself have made consequential cultural contributions to that self-reckoning....
...Colson Whitehead has always been interested in space and place. The Intuitionist, his 1999 debut, is a work of speculative fiction that excavates the vertical world of elevator shafts....
...Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning The Underground Railroad vividly transported viewers into the brutal world of slavery and slave-catchers, while Succession and Breaking Bad...
...by Ulrich Boschwitz and Just the Plague by Lyudmila Ulitskaya –Laura Battle recommends Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, and the audiobook of Harlem Shuffle by Colson...
...Harlem Shuffleby Colson Whitehead, read by Dion Graham, Hachette Audio, 10hrs 35mins The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad is back with a sparky, gripping story of heists and hoods...
...That summer, Colson Whitehead published his feted novel The Underground Railroad (and matched Jenkins’ Oscar with a Pulitzer.)...
...Harlem Shuffleby Colson Whitehead, Fleet £16.99/Doubleday $28.95 “Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw — what mattered were your major streets and boulevards.”...
...It appointed former Netflix data scientist Eric Colson as chief algorithms officer in 2012, making him perhaps the first person to hold such a title....
...With past winners including Jon McGregor, Colm Tóibín and Anna Burns, this year’s shortlist included Bernardine Evaristo and Colson Whitehead, with the prize finally going to Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli...
...Last year, however, when it was announced Ford would receive a lifetime achievement award from The Paris Review, protesters pointed to an incident in 2003, when he spat at the novelist Colson Whitehead,...
...(Thierry Colson Milos floral-embroidered cotton-voile dress, £260, matchesfashion.com; Miu Miu scalloped gingham stretch knit mini skirt, £470, net-a-porter.com )....
...The Nickel Boys , by Colson Whitehead, Fleet, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$24.95, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...That drama is Pastel’s forthcoming series The Underground Railroad, directed by Jenkins for Amazon, based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the fabled escape route for enslaved African-Americans....
...Peter Colson, assistant economist at consultancy Oxford Economics, says “the tables have turned”, in terms of US manufacturers’ desire to shift production to China, with “reshoring” activity in the opposite...
...since George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, contagion has represented everything from the mindless consumerism of late capitalism (all those scenes set in shopping malls), to the HIV crisis, to, in Colson...
...Colson Whitehead’s new novel The Nickel Boys, which tells the story of a young boy at a reform school in Jim Crow‑era Florida, was the first book up for discussion, while the second instalment centred on...
...The Nickel Boys , by Colson Whitehead, Fleet, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$24.95 Whitehead’s first novel since The Underground Railroad centres on a 1960s reform school, where detained boys face abuse that...
...The Lannan Foundation residency programme has brought more than 350 novelists, poets, playwrights and activists here over the past 20 years – including Pulitzer Prize winners Colson Whitehead, Forrest Gander...
...Harriet Tubman herself makes an appearance in Hiram’s work with the Underground Railroad, the network of slave liberation and abolition which Colson Whitehead dissected in his 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning...
...Hidden and suppressed personal histories are, in a different way, also the subject of the new novel from Colson Whitehead, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad....
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