Jay Caspian Kang on “The Message,” in which Ta-Nehisi Coates urges young writers to aspire to “nothing less than doing their part to save the world,” but his latest work reveals the limits of his own advice.
Ta-Nehisi Coates ’s new book, “The Message,” has much loftier ambitions. It opens with a letter to his writing students at Howard University, whom he addresses as “comrades.” Coates used the epistolary form in “Between the World and Me,” a long letter addressed to his son.
In the book’s chapter on the plight of the Palestinians, he writes about seeing cisterns to collect rainwater on the roofs of Palestinian homes. “And in those West Bank settlements which I once took as mere outposts,” he writes, “you can find country clubs furnished with large swimming pools. On seeing these cisterns, it occurred to me that Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow South and segregated not just the pools and fountains but the water itself.
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