In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...

Colson Whitehead mines familiar thematic seams. There’s the inseparability of time, place and individual — New York City, Whitehead’s hometown, is as alive as any character in his new book ...

From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

Did you take courses in African American literature? Colson Whitehead: I wanted to write from an early age. Since the fifth or sixth grade, I would watch The Twilight Zone and read comic books and ...

The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in that square is clearly through a child’s eyes as ...

Today on Commotion, film critics Sarah-Tai Black and Jackson Weaver join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss Nickel Boys and ...

Colson Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, putting him up there with only Faulkner, Updike and Booth Tarkington in the most rarefied rank of American novelists. The immensely ...

Previous winners of the medals, established in 2012 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, includes Donna ...

"Nickel Boys," the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics on Saturday. Jomo Fray's cinematography was also honored ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...