The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic "Politics and the English Language," but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories--our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking--expose and distort our realities.
GenresFloyd, GeorgeAssassinationCollective memoryGroup identityNational characteristics, SenegaleseArab-Israeli conflict
240 pages
English edition · First published 2025 by Hamish Hamilton · ISBN 9780241724187
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