Leonid Pasternak’s ‘The Throes of Creation,’ late 19th century. (Wikimedia Commons) In the short run, I think, the intellectual satisfaction that came of doing criticism and philosophy as an ...

Colson Whitehead made his debut in 1999 with the publication of his first novel The Intuitionist. At the time, the country was in the middle of a Y2K meltdown, Whitehead introduced us to Lila Mae ...

Colson Whitehead’s “John Henry Days,” the follow-up to his much — and quite rightly — acclaimed 1999 debut, “The Intuitionist,” is, by every standard, a big book. For one, there’s Whitehead’s hulking ...

Having won admiring reviews for his first novel, The Intuitionist (1999), Colson Whitehead must now face the higher hurdle of a literary career: a second novel, which, unlike its predecessor, will ...