Lindsay Johns

New York crime caper: Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead, reviewed

25 July 2026 9:00 am

The violent black demi-monde of the 1980s is thrillingly evoked in this gritty finale to Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy

Hustlers and hoodlums

16 October 2021 9:00 am

For modern America, Harlem is a once maligned, now much vaunted literary totem, which continues to occupy a gargantuan place…