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Between the World and Me: Book Reviews

This Community Book Connection for 2016-2017 is written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is written as a letter to his son on the feelings and realities of being black in America.

Between the World and Me Book Club from The Atlantic

Reviews of Between the World and Me

The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates
from The New York Review of Books, February 11, 2016
Loaded Dice: Thomas Chatterton Williams reviews Between the World and Me
from London Review of Books, December 3, 2015
The Definitive Book Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World And Me
from The Huffington Post, October 27, 2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a now exalted writer and spokesman for black America
from The Guardian, October 8, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’
from the New York Times, August 17, 2015
Why Christians Need Coates
From Sojourners, July 29, 2015
The radical chic of Ta-Nehisi Coates
from Washington Post, July 16, 2015
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between The World and Me’ Is Not the Masterpiece We Hoped For
from The Observer, July 15, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up
from The New Yorker, July 15, 2015
Harper Lee's Fiction Is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Fact
from Huffpost Books, July 14, 2015
The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates
from New York, July 12, 2015
Between the World and Me
from Slate, July 9, 2015
Review: In ‘Between the World and Me,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a Searing Dispatch to His Son
from New York Times, July 9, 2015