Tag Archives: Between the World and Me

“You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels.”

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Kate Stover

When this book was published five years ago, Toni Morrison famously predicted that Coates will fill the intellectual void created when James Baldwin died.  Now, seeing this book back on bestseller lists made me wonder what Coates thinks of Baldwin’s … Continue reading →

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“The struggle is really all I have for you because it is the only portion of this world under your control.”

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Kate Stover

This 2015 winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction – “a work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty” that is “highly provocative, thoughtfully presented” — is a meditation on race as a social construct. Written as a set of … Continue reading →

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