Lecture: Colson Whitehead

Brainwash Festival, The Black Archives and the Tropenmuseum present author Colson Whitehead who recently published his searing new novel The Nickel Boys. In 2017 Whitehead visited the John Adams to discuss his novel The Underground Railroad which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that same year. Click here to watch his lecture.



Brainwash Festival, The Black Archives and the Tropenmuseum present author Colson Whitehead who recently published his searing new novel The Nickel Boys. In 2017 Whitehead visited the John Adams to discuss his novel The Underground Railroad which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that same year. Click here to watch his lecture.

Click here to read a review of the Nickel Boys.