Black Memoir
Memoir, the offspring of the slave narrative, is not simply a form within the Black literary tradition; it has thoroughly shaped that tradition. With the release of smash hit Between…
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Between the World and Me
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #16: For My Friend Craig, on a Boozy Midnight
You know how you can like a book just fine, but if you love a book, you’ll tell a friend about it? I told my friend Craig about all of these…
Nobody’s Expert
The New York Times’s Alexandra Alter interviews “America’s foremost public intellectual” and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates on his newfound success and public hail—which he both appreciates and is…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Comic Book Nerd
Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “The Case for Reparations,” Between the World and Me, and, most recently, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” will continue highlighting the societal…
Between the World and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Over at the Guardian, Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Tim Adams about the success of Between the World and Me, racism, and drawing inspiration from James Baldwin: It’s more Baldwin understood that if you…
Imperiled Across Both the Deep and Immediate Past
At the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates unflinchingly analyzes and condemns the history of mass incarceration in America and its disproportionately devastating effect on black families: The blacks incarcerated in this country…
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tom Andes reviews Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates today in Rumpus Books.
HORN! REVIEWS: Between the World and Me
For people who believe themselves white it pays dividends to live in the dream.
What You See
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book Between the World and Me is a letter addressed to his son that America needs to read. New York profiles the author, whose fearless writing about…