![]() Less than a month after the book’s release, President Barack Obama, having met with Coates in the White House on two occasions, announced that Between the World and Me was on his summer reading list. Scott of the Times called it “essential, like water or air.” The praise and claims for the slim volume are wildly exaggerated. It quickly earned Coates a reputation within the political and media establishment as one of the country’s leading commentators on race.Įven before the book’s official release, the New York Times and the New Yorker hailed Coates’s work as a landmark literary event. ![]() African-American journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, written in the form of an extended letter to the author’s adolescent son, was published in July 2015. ![]()
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