![]() ![]() ![]() I will say first what should be obvious: Ta-Nehisi Coates is not James Baldwin (and I don’t think he ever said he was). But in the meantime the vast amount of discussion in print, online, and on social media that has followed the publication of the book has caused me to approach it a bit differently, responding to both the text and the reception. I planned a standard review: to study the text and give my thoughts and analysis, assuming I would naturally engage a few larger connections and ideas along the way. ![]() WHEN I FIRST AGREED to review Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me I did so with the enthusiasm that comes from knowing a capable writer was going to engage issues of race in America and knowing that the world sorely needs more intelligent work in this vein. ![]()
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