Harlem trilogy

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

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