Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its ...

The Message” recalls the spirit of Baldwin as Ta-Nehisi Coates places himself in foreign surroundings to gain a better ...

The final, and longest, essay encompasses a 10-day trip Coates takes to the Middle East. Like his journey to Senegal, it’s ...

You wonder how author Ta-Nehisi Coates felt sitting on the stage of the Apollo Theater fielding questions from journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.

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 ...

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 ...

In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, ...

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 ...

“The Message,” in his words ... which too often feels turgid and sanctified. The blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates would have read ten books about Israel and Palestine and reflected on each in his ...