The Underground Railroad, streaming now on Amazon Prime ... The genius of both Barry Jenkins and Colson Whitehead is their ability to reshape such truths into lasting and remarkable art.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Campus Read Book Discussions series explores "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead through engaging conversations led by faculty and experts. Each session examines different themes, ...

As part of the St. Louis Literary Award series of programs honoring the 2025 award recipient Colson Whitehead, the Saint Louis University 2025 Campus Read Speaker Series will focus on his ...

The last time Colson Whitehead and I spoke was in 2019 ... the book he started to write after working on the intense and powerful 2016 book “The Underground Railroad,” which won him his first Pulitzer ...