The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead’s new novel tells the story of two boys incarcerated a Florida “academy” — and raises haunting questions about…
Walton Muyumba
Walton Muyumba is an associate professor of English at Indiana University-Bloomington. He has written for the Oxford American and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is the author of The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism.
The Underground Railroad
In his new novel, Colson Whitehead tells the story of a woman’s flight from slavery to freedom — along a…