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Coates is a journalist who writes novels like a historian and essays like a novelist. His prose is architectural — every paragraph is loadbearing. He writes about race in America with a specificity and moral clarity that makes most other writing on the subject feel like rough drafts.
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If you have never read Ta-Nehisi Coates, start with Between the World and Me. It is the most accessible entry point and sets you up for the rest of the catalogue.
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