The Message - Writing and the World

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the Number One New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award, and of the acclaimed essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power. A MacArthur Fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story ''The Case for Reparations''. He lives in New York with his wife and son.>

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The Message charts Coates's re-entry as a public intellectual . . . The rolling, elegiac cadences of much of his earlier work have yielded to a fury that's harder edged. But a sense of shock also seems to have elicited in Coates a sense of possibility . . . [Coates] is using his position of prominence and moral authority to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians. Having lived the life of the famous Black writer in mostly white professional spaces, someone who has been both venerated and vilified, he finds in his new community "the warmth of solidarity." Instead of being the singular voice or the incomparable expert, Coates offers himself as an ally New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates Ta-Nehisi
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780241724187
• ISBN: 978-0-241-72418-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Dakar, TRAVEL / Africa / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Africa, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Africa / West, TRAVEL / Africa / West, Travel writing, Politics & government, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Political ideologies and movements, Cultural and media studies, Relating to African American / Black American people