![]() ![]() Like its predecessors, it is carefully built and stunningly daring it is also, both in expected and unexpected ways, dense, substantial and important. It touches on the historical novel and the slave story, but what it does with those genres is striking and imaginative. His new novel, “The Underground Railroad,” is as different as can be from the zombie book. ![]() “The Intuitionist,” with its dystopian concerns and futuristic mood, gave way to the folkloric past of “John Henry Days” “Zone One,” Whitehead’s contribution to the unquenchable American thirst for zombies, was his departure from “Sag Harbor,” with its coming-of-age feeling and concessions to nostalgia. ![]() At the same time, they all have one thing in common - the will to work within a recognizable tract of popular culture, taking advantage of conventions while subverting them for the novel’s own purposes. Colson Whitehead’s novels are rebellious creatures: Each one of them goes to great lengths to break free of the last one, of its structure and language, of its areas of interest. ![]()
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