Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction on Monday. Below is Jay Nordlinger’s review of the book from the October 10, 2016, issue of National Review.

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

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and now he’s preparing to launch this adaptation of The Underground Railroad based on the Colson Whitehead novel. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in The Underground Railroad During their respective ...

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 ...

Colson Whitehead’s novel is the subject of the historical drama written and directed by Barry Jenkins.

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According to The Times, Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, has been “removed permanently” from a reading list at Essex ...

Colson Whitehead: I wanted to write from an early age ... Of course, Harriet Jacobs is a big referent for the character of Cora [in The Underground Railroad]. But I didn’t write that much. JD: What ...

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

Whitehead is the author of the novels “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor,” “The Underground Railroad,” “The Nickel Boys,” and “Harlem Shuffle,” among others. He ...