What We Learned This Week
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What We Learned This Week
I just finished reading Colson Whitehead’s new novel “The Nickel Boys,” about a nightmarish reform school for boys in Jim Crow-era Florida. It gutted me even more than his previous book, “The Underground Railroad,” which was about the not-very-uplifting subject of … brutal, backbreaking slavery. I w…