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

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 legacy. In a May 2020 interview, he said that … Read More