Ta-Nehisi Coates
Here are six must-read books for November
Joe Hagan recounts Jann Wenner’s salacious life, Mike Spencer Brown offers a chronicle of ‘crazy’ travel and Ta-Nehisi Coates examines Black American tragedy
Parsing Barack Obama’s legacy
One wishes author had a touch more compassion for the man who fulfilled the dream
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ sledgehammer words on being black in America
Book review: Rising intellectual force Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his son in a searing polemic about the realities of black life in America
What goes on here
It presently is garden party season in Ottawa—the Speaker’s reception at Kingsmere was last evening, the leader of the opposition hosts at Stornoway tonight, there’s probably something at 24 Sussex at some point. The press gallery is in these cases invited to mix with the political class in smart casual wear and, at least in the case of 24 Sussex, an inflatable castle is provided for children.
Magical objectivity
Ta-Nehisi Coates considers modern political reportage.