The Underground Railroad

On the Bad Binary of “Good” and “Bad” Literature

Josh Cook on Taking Back the Idea of "Good Taste" from Cultural Authoritarians

 
By Josh Cook  August 23, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Megan Fernandes on the Literary Uses of a Room

By Megan Fernandes  July 14, 2023
Historical Fiction

On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth

By Phong Nguyen  September 1, 2022
Film History

David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

By David Wright Faladé  February 15, 2022
Best of the Year

The Best Literary Film and Television of the Year

By Emily Temple  December 17, 2021
TV

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
The Hub

Watch the stunning new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

By Vanessa Willoughby  April 15, 2021
Black History

Liberty or Death: On the Prophetic Visions and Unflinching Will of
Harriet Tubman

By Dorothy Wickenden  March 31, 2021
The Hub

We finally have a release date (and trailer!) for Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad.

By Dan Sheehan  February 25, 2021
The Hub

Check out the gorgeous new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

By Dan Sheehan  January 25, 2021
The Hub

Don’t know where to start with Colson Whitehead? Here’s a reading list.

By Dan Sheehan  November 6, 2020
The Hub

Colson Whitehead, Tegan & Sara, and more the week’s literary film and TV news!

By Dan Sheehan  October 23, 2020
The Hub

The first look at Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

By Jonny Diamond  October 19, 2020
The Hub

Colson Whitehead is the youngest writer to win the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

By Katie Yee  July 14, 2020
Journalism

Defining the Ethics of the Writer and Journalist’s Gaze

By Spencer Wolff  May 28, 2020
Gifts

10 Books to Give to Dads Who Don’t Read*

By Emily Temple  June 13, 2019
Feature

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Have Defined the 2010s (So Far)

By Emily Temple  October 30, 2018
Advice

“Fear is Good Quality Control.” Colson Whitehead on the Writer’s Life

By Emily Temple  March 27, 2018
Excerpts

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
Conversations

Write the Book That Scares You Shitless: An Interview with Colson Whitehead

By John Freeman  November 23, 2016
What to Read

Five Books Making News This Week: Floods, Ponds, and Grief

By Jane Ciabattari  August 16, 2016
What to Read

Five Books Making News This Week: Longlists, Anthologies, and the Underground Railroad

By Jane Ciabattari  August 11, 2016
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