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Ta Nehisi Coates

  1. the dc universe
    It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s … Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Superman Reboot!It’s reportedly being set up as “a Black Superman story.”
    By Devon Ivie
  2. adaptations
    Brad Pitt and Oprah to Produce Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water DancerCoates’s debut novel will soon be a film.
    By Zoe Haylock
  3. casting
    Angela Bassett, Phylicia Rashad, and Oprah Cast in HBOs Between the World and MeThe cast is an exercise in Black excellence.
    By Chris Murphy
  4. adaptations
    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me Is Coming to HBO This FallKamilah Forbes will direct an adaptation of the Apollo’s 2018 stage show.
    By Zoe Haylock
  5. reading lists
    The Books Our Political Writers Are Reaching for Right NowA reading list for finding some perspective in a crisis.
    By The Editors
  6. art and soul
    The Artist Whose Paintings Have Captivated Ta-Nehisi CoatesCalida Rawles on depicting godlike black bodies.
    By Anna Furman
  7. who were the 2010s?
    Ta-Nehisi Coates on What Changed in the ‘Obama Decade’ — and What Didn’tTalking reparations, Kaepernick, and the first black president with the writer who may be the definitive chronicler of racial politics in the 2010s.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. literary greats
    Celebrating Toni Morrison With Thousands of Her ReadersMore than 3,000 people came to St. John the Divine to hear eulogies from Oprah, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others.
    By Lila Shapiro
  9. bradley cooper party pooper
    Bradley Cooper, Game Fiend, Got Too Competitive on Oprah’s VacationCooper would be that one uncle who ropes everyone into playing Monopoly and then flips the table when he loses.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. just asking questions
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist NowA conversation about the revived debate over reparations, the 2020 Democratic primary, and the power of pop culture to advance progressive change.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. Lupita Nyong’o Has a Great Story About the Black Panther Cast Singing Snoop Dogg“The drummers started drumming to ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ and then the entire crowd joined in.”
    By Victoria Johnson
  12. Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write Captain America for Marvel ComicsThe relaunched series hits on the Fourth of July.
    By Abraham Riesman
  13. Racism May Have Gotten Us Into This Mess, But Identity Politics Can’t Get Us OutTa-Nehisi Coates tells us that Donald Trump’s racial appeal makes him America’s first white president. But how do we make him the last?
    By Briahna Joy Gray
  14. 8 Books You Need to Read This OctoberFrom Jennifer Egan and Ta-Nehisi Coates to a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
    By Boris Kachka
  15. fall preview 2017
    44 New Books to Read This FallMuch-anticipated work from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Hillary Clinton, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  16. summer selections 2017
    17 Comics to Read at the Beach, As Chosen by CreatorsHandpicked by Tom King, Shannon Watters, and Veronica Fish
    By Abraham Riesman
  17. dream teams
    Fantasy Boyfriends Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan to Make Fourth Movie TogetherTa-Nehisi Coates will write the script for Wrong Answer.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  18. comic con 2016
    Coates’s Black Panther Has Influenced Coogler’s“He’s my favorite writer right now, in the world.”
    By Abraham Riesman
  19. sequential art
    Roxane Gay and Ta-Nehisi Coates Are Co-writing a Marvel ComicA Black Panther spinoff.
    By Abraham Riesman
  20. the strategist
    11 Books That Make the Best Father’s Day GiftsFrom Tig Notaro to Don DeLillo.
    By Boris Kachka and Alexis Swerdloff
  21. sequential art
    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther Is the Year’s Best-Selling ComicSo far, at least.
    By Abraham Riesman
  22. sequential art
    How Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kevin Smith, and Other Celebs Learned to Write Comic BooksIt can be terrifying.
    By Abraham Riesman
  23. sequential art
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Annotates His Black Panther DebutFor new readers and longtime geeks alike.
    By Abraham Riesman
  24. awards
    Diversity Not an Issue at Book Critics Awards “It’s bad for me to go last, I don’t have that much to say and I definitely don’t have a message, so, sorry about that.”
    By Boris Kachka
  25. q&a
    Tracee Ellis Ross Wants to Make TV That Reflects Black People’s Real Lives“To be on a show that is willing to keep telling the truth through the lens of this family means a lot to me.”
    By Ashley Weatherford
  26. sequential art
    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Upcoming Black Panther Debut Is Already a Sales HitAnd it’s not even out until April!
    By Abraham Riesman
  27. Ta-Nehisi Coates Just (Sort Of) Endorsed SandersTa-Nehisi Coates and Michelle Alexander both prefer Sanders to Clinton. (But they don’t “feel the Bern.”)
    By Eric Levitz
  28. year in culture 2015
    The 10 Best Books of 2015Where will Ta-Nehisi Coates take us next?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  29. popebars
    The ‘Pope Bars’ Meme Will Add Some Bass to Your PrayersBlessing fingers turn to trigger fingers.
    By Ira Madison III
  30. speeeech!
    See Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Nat’l. Book Award Speech“I have waited 15 years for this moment.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  31. national book awards
    Here Are the 2015 National Book Award WinnersTa-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson, and more.
    By Jackson McHenry
  32. last night on late night
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Seems Pretty Damn Confident About Writing Black PantherHe’s got that Genius Grant swagger. 
    By Jesse David Fox
  33. comics
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Unpacks the Way Comics Have Conquered the WorldWhy are superheroes resonating so strongly? Are they worthy of the attention? The cultural critic dons his fanboy cape and goes in search of some answers.
    By Abraham Riesman
  34. sequential art
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing Black Panther Is the Year’s Biggest Comics NewsThis is unprecedented in comics.
    By Abraham Riesman
  35. Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Isn’t Our James BaldwinCoates’s Between the World and Me shows how the struggle for freedom has transformed since Baldwin tackled the subject of race in America.
    By Vinson Cunningham
  36. Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman: Better Off Lost?What can you make of a vastly inferior novel with a much more sophisticated morality?
    By Christian Lorentzen
  37. profile
    The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi CoatesAfter the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  38. profile
    The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhat comes after the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  39. civil rights
    Taylor Branch, Team Reveal More About HBO SeriesAt a recent Maryland Film Festival panel discussion, concerning the Baltimore protests.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  40. the national interest
    Obama Goes to Selma and Picks a FightA commemorative speech containing a sharp argument about race, history, and patriotism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the national interest
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Disagrees With ‘Jonathan Chait,’ and So Do IIf Ta-Nehisi Coates wishes to create a foil for his arguments, please give this character a name that is not already mine.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. the national interest
    Barack Obama vs. the Culture of PovertyA debate with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. the national interest
    Barack Obama, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Poverty, and CultureWhy did the president urge black people to “get off the couch and stop watching SportsCenter”?
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. talk
    Is X-Men: First Class ‘Blind to Race’?Is it a “period piece that seems blind to its own period”?
    By Willa Paskin
  45. 21 questions
    Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Not One of Those ‘I Hope New York Goes Back to the Grimy Eighties’ FoolsThe ‘Atlantic’ blogger answers our usual 21 questions.
    By Vanita Salisbury