Book review: Harlem Shuffle — by Colson Whitehead

This is the Harlem of the 1960s, crucible of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Nickel Boys — by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” is a masterpiece of fiction rooted firmly — and disturbingly — in fact. Inspired by the real life horrors which occurred at a boys’ reformatory in northern Florida well … (read more)