A professional slight kicks off Colson Whitehead's third crime caper. Harlem merchant Ray Carney has just wrapped up an ...

With his new novel "Cool Machine" out now, revisit how Colson Whitehead evolved from an avant-garde stylist into a bestselling, genre-defying novelist. Here is your essential reading cheat sheet.

Whitehead’s noirish début tells the story of a Black elevator inspector with supernatural gifts, who is framed for an accident amid a sectarian struggle to define the cities of the future. Readers of ...

The Pulitizer Prize-winner pivots to the 1980s in 'Cool Machine,' delivering a dazzling, humor-infused masterpiece that cements his Harlem trilogy as an American classic.

Ray Carney is back in the concluding chapter of the Harlem Trilogy, and finally trying to kick his criminal side hustle.

I was standing at the corner of Ninety-third and Broadway, scanning an empty storefront for signs of literary activity, when Colson Whitehead texted: “Behind you.” It was a clear May afternoon.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead about his new book, "Cool Machine." ...

Earlier this month, Colson Whitehead published Cool Machine, the third and final installment in his Harlem Trilogy of novels, ...