The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker

by Jelani Cobb, David Remnick, Cobb Jelani

Book Overview

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more--with a foreword by Jelani Cobb

This latest anthology from the pages of the New Yorker is a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, featuring astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's "Letter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063017598
• ISBN13: 9780063017597
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"