Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: Violence, humour and sharp social criticism
Final novel in two-time Pulitzer winner’s Harlem Trilogy traces evolution of its ageing crook characters and of New York itself
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From the French Riviera to Sag Harbor via faded English seaside resorts, fiction shows how long, hot days can be glorious but complicated
Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequality
RaMell Ross’s film brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning tale to the screen
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘One of the references I have when I talk about Nickel Boys is the Magadelene laundry mothers in Ireland’
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor missed out on an Oscar for her role in King Richard. It will be no surprise if she’s nominated again for RaMell Ross’s acclaimed new film
Crook Manifesto: Crime novel about a damaged city and hungry men
Colson Whitehead’s sequel to Harlem Shuffle is set in early 1970s with Ray Carney leaving illegal exploits behind
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead: a pacy, rollicking read
The double Pulitzer prize winner’s latest is set in 1960s Harlem’s criminal underworld
Colson Whitehead: ‘I lacked imagination to conceive how terrible Trump would be’
The winner of two Pulitzer prizes on the exhausting task of writing about racism
The Underground Railroad review: The run of her life
Eileen Battersby says Colson Whitehead’s gripping slavery epic should be read by everyone
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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