Colson Whitehead

The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead

Alexander Manshel on the Historical Fiction Boom of Contemporary American Literature

 
By Alexander Manshel  November 21, 2023
Reading Habits

On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

By Josh Cook  August 23, 2023
Audiobooks

The Best Audiobooks of July, According to Audiofile

By Literary Hub  July 28, 2023
Crime

Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

By Dwyer Murphy  July 19, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

By Megan Fernandes  July 14, 2023
The Hub

Watch President Biden award Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan their National Humanities Medals today.

By Janet Manley  March 21, 2023
Hope

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

By Paz Pardo  February 14, 2023
Historical Fiction

On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth

By Phong Nguyen  September 1, 2022
Crime

From Nabokov to Erdrich: Reading Complex Portraits of Criminality

By Rebecca Bernard  August 29, 2022
The Hub

Tomorrow is Paperback Book Day, so here are 21 new ones to celebrate.

By Katie Yee  July 29, 2022
Experimental Fiction

Renaissance of the Weird: Experimental Fiction as the New American Normal

By John Domini  July 25, 2022
Summer reading

Our 15 Favorite Summery Novels for Summer Reading

By Emily Temple  June 14, 2022
The Hub

Get ready: Colson Whitehead’s new novel is coming next summer.

By Emily Firetog  March 9, 2022
Film History

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

By David Wright Faladé  February 15, 2022
Best of the Year

The Ultimate Best Books
of 2021 List

By Emily Temple  December 27, 2021
Best of the Year

The Best Literary Film and Television of the Year

By Emily Temple  December 17, 2021
Behind the Mic

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: A Conversation with Narrator Dion Graham

By Behind the Mic   November 30, 2021
News and Culture

Rooney, Powers, Whitehead… Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books

By Book Marks  October 1, 2021
Reading Lists

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

By Emily Temple  September 22, 2021
new books tuesday

15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

By Katie Yee  September 14, 2021
Literary Criticism

Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
Daily Fiction

Harlem Shuffle

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 14, 2021
The Hub

Here are the finalists for the 2021 Kirkus Prize.

By Snigdha Koirala  September 13, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  September 1, 2021
What to Read Next

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple  August 31, 2021
The Hub

Laurence Fishburne is bringing Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor to TV.

By Dan Sheehan  August 5, 2021
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