New York state of mind PAUL BAILEY
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Colson Whitehead writes historical novels about the kind of people most historians tend to ignore, through either ignorance or deliberation.
The limitlessly resilient Cora, the central character in his masterly The Underground Railroad, could be considered an amalgam of every brave black woman who has fought her way out of slavery, were it not for the fact that she exists as a unique individual on the page.
Great names are and – of being interested, almost to the point of obsession, with the news behind and beyond the front-page headlines. When you stop to consider it, that’s really our news in the main.
