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A collection of the New Yorker’s pioneering writings on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and others
From the pages of The New Yorker comes a bold and revealing portrait of black life in America, with stunning early work from Rebecca West’s account of a lynching and James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writings by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Félix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more.
Reaching back over the past century, The Matter of Black Lives includes a wealth of material from The New Yorker archives, including essays, feature pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book covers everything from the arts to civil rights, justice, and politics, and brings us to the present day with accounts of what Jelani Cobb calls “The American Spring.” The result is a startling, nuanced, and ultimately indelible portrait of America’s complex relationship with race.
