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Look, I’ll shout out Black filmmakers all day, every day. Nia DaCosta, Steve McQueen, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Antoine ...
Additional stars helping to select the top projects across film, games and audio storytelling competitions include Jennifer ...
You’re Colson Whitehead, and you’ve just pocketed a couple of Pulitzers for harrowing novels — “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” — that wrung beauty from the abyss ...
New York City is “always being laid low,” Colson Whitehead said. “By 9/11, by Covid, and we bounce back.”Credit...Jasmine Clarke for The New York Times Supported by By Alexandra Alter “I ...
The club of those awarded the prize for consecutive novels is even smaller. Colson Whitehead is its only member. He won last year for his novel, "The Nickel Boys," about the Jim Crow south.
The club of those awarded the prize for consecutive novels is even smaller. Colson Whitehead is its only member. He won last year for his novel, "The Nickel Boys," about the Jim Crow south.
When we caught up with acclaimed author Colson Whitehead, he was buried behind a mountain of his own making: copies of his latest novel, "The Nickel Boys." The new book is so highly anticipated ...
This is the opening scene of Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “The Nickel Boys,” which springs from the harrowing true story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in northern Florida.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead‘s latest novel The Nickel Boys, about an abusive Jim Crow-era reform school, joins a backlist of books that point to urgent questions about ...
There’s Colson Whitehead up ahead, minutes before our arranged time, dawdling on the corner of 126th Street and Fifth Avenue, dressed in slim jeans and Chelsea boots, his dreadlocks cutting a ...
The novelist Colson Whitehead has always been preoccupied with work—its capacity for both excruciating drudgery and the realization of inner truths. His characters have often sought its deeper ...