Mitchell S. Jackson

Jackson is the author of The Residue Years and Survival Math

Whitehead’s ninth book, a harrowing story of an abusive Jim Crow–era reform school, will be published July 16.

'I Carry It Within Me.' Novelist Colson Whitehead Reminds Us How America's Racist History Lives On

There's Colson Whitehead up ahead, minutes before our arranged time, dawdli...

There's Colson Whitehead up ahead, minutes before our arranged time, dawdling on the corner of 126th Street and Fifth Avenue, dressed in slim jeans and Chelsea boots, his dreadlocks cutting a clean line across his...