In ‘The Message,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the stories that fuel bigotry
Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its ...
Review: In 'The Message,' Ta-Nehisi Coates seeks a kind of corrective redemption
The Message” recalls the spirit of Baldwin as Ta-Nehisi Coates places himself in foreign surroundings to gain a better ...
Book Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates visits Senegal, South Carolina and the Middle East for ‘The Message’
Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with a slim volume of three essays called “The Message.” Based on trips he took to Senegal, South ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Not Everyone Will Love His New Book
In “The Message,” Coates grapples with questions about which stories are told, and how, through his visits to Senegal, South Carolina and the West Bank. By Anderson Tepper Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s troubled American conscience
Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. With his new book The Message ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in 'The Message'
In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Returns to the Political Fray, Calling Out Injustice
THE MESSAGE, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates has returned to the fray. In 2017, after getting into a public dust-up with Cornel West, who accused him of being in thrall to a “neoliberal ...
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The big lie of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 10 days in ‘Palestine’
One bad book tells us everything we need to know about the corrupt intellectual war waged against Israel and how liberal media discarded journalism in favor of leftist bias.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates ponders inequality and injustice in ‘The Message’
A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Ten years after its publication, Coates has returned to that essay in order to correct it.