History is a matter of perspective. "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), ...

THE NICKEL BOYS, by Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, 224 pp., $24.95. Among the literary relatives of Colson Whitehead’s stellar new novel “The Nickel Boys” is George Orwell’s famous personal essay, “Such ...

Plus: The one book he's read in the last few months, and how he just finished his next novel. It's an odd moment, perhaps, to be experiencing so much good news. Indeed, as Whitehead (also the author ...

Imagine being a black kid growing up in 1950s and 60s Tallahassee. Your hear Martin Luther King’s inspiring speaches replayed on a record player. You see the ruling on Brown v. Board of Education. You ...

Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys" earned him multiple prestigious accolades, but it didn't come without a price. Whitehead, 50, became the first author to win ...

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Shortly before his death in the spring of 1972, Richard Nickel, a Park Ridge-based preservationist of threatened Chicago architecture, wrote a letter to his friend Tim Samuelson. “I think the stock ...

Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).