Letter to My Son
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
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“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink
I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Aug 2020 25min Permalink
On learning a new language, a new culture, and why “it must never be concluded that an urge toward the cosmopolitan, toward true education, will make people stop hitting you.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Aug 2014 15min Permalink
Feature Writing, Reporting, Essays and Criticism, Public Interest — a full list of the articles nominated today, including work by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Pamela Colloff, John Jeremiah Sullivan and more.
As surely as 2008 was made possible by black people’s long fight to be publicly American, it was also made possible by those same Americans’ long fight to be publicly black. That latter fight belongs especially to one man, as does the sight of a first family bearing an African name. Barack Obama is the president. But it’s Malcolm X’s America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Apr 2011 15min Permalink
Wesley Morris, a Pulitzer Prize winner, covers film at Grantland.
"That's what writing about race and popular culture is for me: it's crime reporting. It's not me looking for an agenda when I go to the movies ... but I feel a moral responsibility to report a crime being committed. That's what I'm forced to do over and over again."
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Jun 2014 Permalink
The New Yorker has lifted its paywall on stories published since 2007. The following picks are available free for the first time.
A marriage devoted to the mind-body problem.
Larissa MacFarquhar Feb 2007 40min
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
John Colapinto Apr 2007 50min
Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they?
Ian Parker Jul 2007 45min
A lifetime of restless isolation explained.
Tim Page Aug 2007 20min
The People’s Republic learns to drive.
Peter Hessler Nov 2007 20min
A postmodern murder mystery.
David Grann Feb 2008 45min
How the Mississippi lawyer who brought down Big Tobacco overstepped.
Peter J. Boyer May 2008 40min
Learning how to go the distance.
Haruki Murakami Jun 2008 20min
A multibillionaire’s relentless quest for global influence.
Connie Bruck Jun 2008 50min
A nonconformist rapper’s second act.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Sep 2009 15min
The far-flung adventures of a tugboating family.
Burkhard Bilger Apr 2010 40min
What a Texas town can teach us about health care.
Atul Gawande Jun 2009 30min
Anatomy of a murder trial.
Janet Malcolm May 2010 1h45min
She was brilliant. Was she also a fraud?
Jeffrey Toobin Oct 2010 30min
My life as Keith Moon.
James Wood Nov 2010 20min
What separates the women from the men.
Tina Fey Mar 2011 20min
Rin Tin Tin and the making of Warner Bros.
Susan Orlean Aug 2011 20min
How Taylor Swift made teen angst into a business empire.
Lizzie Widdicombe Oct 2011 35min
On the front lines of a burgeoning civil war.
John Lee Anderson Feb 2012 35min
Day by day, a city at war with the regime collects its dead.
Luke Mogelson Apr 2013 30min
A new group of breeders want to undomesticate the cat.
Ariel Levy May 2013 20min
They thought that they’d found the perfect apartment. They weren’t alone.
Tad Friend May 2013 30min
The traumatized veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
David Finkel Sep 2013 20min
The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior.
Mattathias Schwartz Apr 2014 30min
Does the alternatives-to-incarceration industry profit from injustice?
Sarah Stillman Jun 2014 40min
Feb 2007 – Jun 2014 Permalink
Dr. Jelani Cobb is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of three books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He teaches journalism at Columbia University.
“Ralph Wiley — the sports writer, late Ralph Wiley — told me something when I was 25 or so, and he was so right. He said I should never fall in love with anything I’ve written. … The second thing he told me was, ‘You won’t get there overnight, and believe me, you don’t want to.’ I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t get it when he told me that. I was like — why would I not want to get there overnight? Now I’m like: Thank God I didn’t get there overnight. Because there’s so much writing I would have to explain.”
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Sep 2017 Permalink
Louisa Thomas, a former writer and editor at Grantland, is a New Yorker contributor and the author of Louisa. Her father Evan Thomas, a longtime writer for Newsweek and Time, is the author of several award-winning books, including last year's Being Nixon.
“That's one thing I've learned from my dad: the capacity to be open to becoming more open.”
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Jun 2016 Permalink
Wesley Yang writes for New York and other publications.
“If a person remains true to some part of their experience, no matter what it is, and they present it in full candor, there’s value to that. People will recognize it. Once I knew that was true, I knew I could do this.”
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Feb 2016 Permalink
A look back at some of our favorite moments from the first 99.
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Jul 2014 Permalink
Radhika Jones is the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and the editor of Women on Women.
“There are a lot of people who still see the value of talking to someone, having a real conversation — about the things that they’re doing, the things that they’re caring about, the things that they’re afraid of, the things that are challenging — because in that conversation, they themselves will discover things that they didn’t realize. It obviously takes courage. It’s a payoff for the reader, certainly, but I think that there are subjects who understand that there is something there for them, too.”
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Oct 2019 Permalink
Nikole Hannah-Jones covers civil rights for The New York Times Magazine.
“I don’t think there’s any beat you can cover in America that race is not intertwined with—environment, politics, business, housing, you name it. So, whatever beat you put me on, this is what I was going to cover because I think it’s just intrinsic. If you’re not being blind to what’s on your beat, then it’s part of the beat.”
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Jun 2016 Permalink
Jenna Wortham is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Still Processing.
“I feel like I’m still writing to let my 10-year-old self know it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to be a chubby androgynous weirdo. You know what I mean? Like this weird black kid. It’s okay. There are others like you.”
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Feb 2018 Permalink
Hanna Rosin is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a founder and editor at DoubleX.
“I often think of reporting as dating, or even speed dating. You’re looking for someone where there’s a spark there between you and them. Sometimes that happens right away and sometimes it takes forever. ... You have to determine if they're reflective, friendly, open. It could be love at first sight and they're still all wrong, which is really heartbreaking.”
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Dec 2014 Permalink