The Pulitizer Prize-winner pivots to the 1980s in 'Cool Machine,' delivering a dazzling, humor-infused masterpiece that cements his Harlem trilogy as an American classic.

A professional slight kicks off Colson Whitehead’s third crime caper. Harlem merchant Ray Carney has just wrapped up an interview with a furniture magazine he adores when he’s called downtown to meet ...

Colson Whitehead completes his Harlem Trilogy and a look at the persecution of a Jewish family in France ...

Cool Machine is the last book in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy. Across three decades, the series has followed the furniture dealer and family man Ray Carney as he navigates the changing cultural ...

The grit and grandeur of 80s New York drive this rollicking story of an underground wheeler-dealer ...

The writer powerfully uses crime fiction to explore Black aspiration, family loyalty and the forces that reshaped New York from the civil rights era to Reaganomics ...

VAN WERT — Cool Machines creates machines that can blow fake snow, put the stuffing in pillows, insulate a home and more. “We’ve established ourselves as an innovator of different products,” said Dave ...