Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>A collection of the\x26nbsp;New Yorker\x26#8216;s groundbreaking writing on race in America\x26#8212;including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta\-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more\x26#8212;with a foreword by Jelani Cobb.<br/>This latest anthology from the pages of the\x26nbsp;New Yorker\x26nbsp;is a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,\x26nbsp;featuring astonishing early work from Rebecca West\x26#8217;s account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin\x26#8217;s \x26#8220;Letter from a Region in My Mind\x26#8221; (which later formed the basis of\x26nbsp;The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta\-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. F\x26#233;lix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century,\x26nbsp;The Matter of Black Lives\x26nbsp;includes a wide array of material from the\x26nbsp;New Yorker\x26nbsp;archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. The book addresses everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and politics; it brings us up to the present day with accounts of what Jelani Cobb calls \x26#8220;The American Spring.\x26#8221; The result is a startling and nuanced portrait of this country\x26#8217;s complex relationship with race.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/><p>Jelani Cobb&#160;is a historian and professor of journalism at Columbia University. A staff writer at the&#160;New Yorker&#160;since 2015, he is a recipient of the Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis, as well as fellowships from the Ford and Fulbright foundations.</p> <p><strong>David Remnick </strong>has been the editor of the New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. His books include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Lenins Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, and two collections of his magazine pieces.</p>