Colson Whitehead completes his Harlem Trilogy and a look at the persecution of a Jewish family in France ...

The writer powerfully uses crime fiction to explore Black aspiration, family loyalty and the forces that reshaped New York from the civil rights era to Reaganomics ...

Cool Machine is the last book in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy. Across three decades, the series has followed the furniture dealer and family man Ray Carney as he navigates the changing cultural ...

In “How to Write,” a parody article published in 2012, Colson Whitehead offers a tongue-in-cheek lesson in creative composition. He mocks the traditional guidance distributed in writing workshops by ...

After any chapter of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, I feel as though I am reading a particularly operatic story by Damon Runyon, complete with molls, dolls and Broadway-laden side-eyes. It is the ...

For “Cool Machine,” the 1980s-set final novel in his Harlem crime trilogy, Colson Whitehead drew inspiration from another classic American story. That’s right, “Die Hard.” While there aren’t any ...

The grit and grandeur of 80s New York drive this rollicking story of an underground wheeler-dealer In the summer of 1977 a bolt of lightning struck a substation on the Hudson River, knocking out power ...

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