The Message by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me travels the world to explore how the stories we tell and the ones we don't shape our realities. Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our storiesour reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmakingexpose and distort our realities.

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as something capable of activating transformation in the face of corrupt and powerful forces

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