Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is out in paperback. . . The Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis as he is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy. Curtis falls in with a fellow “delinquent” named Turner, and the novel explores the very different reactions to the terrible system that …
Audiobooks. More specifically, audiobook narrators and the ability of said narrators to make or break an audiobook experience. I was going to try to do this without naming names, but I’ve never before shied away from being upfront about what I don’t like, so why would I now? I think it stemmed from some …
The escape from slavery is one of the most powerful of American stories, but it usually leads in a single direction: north. Whitehead’s railroad, as you might guess from the cover image, doesn’t run in such a straight line. An escape might lead to a greater hell, or to an oddly unsettling heaven. Whitehead doesn’t …
