New Releases by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Senegal, South Carolina e Palestina: il passato schiavista e coloniale, il retaggio del razzismo e l''apartheid imposto da Israele nei territori occupati. Tre viaggi attraverso tre continenti percorrendo le strade tracciate dalla memoria collettiva, inseguendo nuovi modi per leggere i miti distruttivi e cambiare il presente. In questo momento cruciale della Storia globale, Ta-Nehisi Coates, uno dei piú lucidi pensatori dei nostri tempi, ci invita a riflettere sulla scrittura intesa come resistenza e testimonianza. E sul suo scopo fondamentale: salvare il mondo. «Un viaggio in luoghi segnati da ingiustizie estreme, e un''esplorazione del potere della parola come strumento per plasmare un futuro piú giusto. Al tempo stesso un grido di battaglia e una lettera d''amore alla scrittura». «Oprah Daily» Un libro che nasce dopo aver viaggiato, visto e sentito. Perché scrivere significa immergersi dentro le cose, toccarle, osservarle senza accontentarsi delle narrazioni altrui o delle rappresentazioni parziali: è questa l''idea che guida Ta-Nehisi Coates nelle sue esplorazioni. Si parte da Dakar, una meta a lungo evitata per paura del contraccolpo emotivo degli echi del passato. All''arrivo Coates si rende subito conto di essere al di là di quell''oceano che ha segnato il destino della comunità nera, e sente di essere tornato a «casa», forse anche per coloro che non hanno potuto farlo. Seconda tappa: Chapin, una cittadina lacustre del South Carolina. Subito dopo il periodo di maggiore attività del movimento Black Lives Matter, l''autore è stato invitato da un''insegnante di una scuola locale perché alcuni genitori e docenti avevano tentato di proibire la lettura del suo memoir Tra me e il mondo. Coates si prepara allo scontro, ma la visita si trasforma invece in un''occasione per riflettere sugli spazi culturali, sulla dimensione extra-istituzionale, sulle letture personali, che contribuiscono alla costruzione dello spirito critico piú rivoluzionario. Il percorso si conclude in Palestina. Qui, ospite del Festival della letteratura palestinese nel maggio 2023, Coates osserva il regime di apartheid che vige su tutto il territorio. La popolazione musulmana è bloccata ai checkpoint, monitorata senza motivo, aggredita e umiliata fin dentro le abitazioni. Durante il soggiorno, è impossibile per lo scrittore non pensare a un parallelo tra il mito di Israele «unica democrazia del Medio Oriente» e quello degli Stati Uniti «paladini del mondo libero». Tra reportage di viaggio e racconto personale, Il messaggio mostra l''importanza di continuare a cercare altre versioni di una stessa storia, altri testimoni, altri messaggeri della verità. «In questi viaggi Coates rivela come le storie che raccontiamo possano ingannarci, e come solo la verità possa portare alla giustizia». «The Boston Globe»

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities. “Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about race.”—Associated Press “Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing. Brilliant and timely.”—Booklist (starred review) Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out 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 stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

Captain America created by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby.

The shocking end of Ta-Nehisi Coates'' Black Panther saga! Has T''Challa learned what it means to be king just in time to lose his kingdom? Weeks ago, the Black Panther disappeared on a deep space mission, leaving behind his country, his family and the woman he loves. Now, find out what Wakanda Prime has done without its king -- just as T''Challa reaches out for the life he left behind! Can he truly rid himself of the Intergalactic Empire and its despotic ruler N''Jadaka -- or will he only lead them straight to Earth? As the big finish approaches, the nation of Wakanda must go to war against its own future! This is the story of a king who sought to be a hero, a hero reduced to a slave -- and a slave who advanced into legend! COLLECTING: Black Panther (2018) 13-25

Ο Χάιραμ Γουόκερ γεννιέται στη σκλαβιά σε μια φυτεία της Βιρτζίνια. Είναι προικισμένος με μια ανεξήγητη δύναμη που θα ανακαλύψει –σχεδόν άντρας– όταν θα διακινδυνεύσει να χάσει τα πάντα σε μια προσπάθεια να δραπετεύσει. Μια δύσκολη απόφαση θα τον απομακρύνει από την προσωρινή του οικογένεια –τη θετή του μητέρα Θίνα, μια λιγομίλητη γυναίκα με πολλά μυστικά, και την αγαπημένη του Σοφία– και θα τον οδηγήσει στην καρδιά του υπόγειου πολέμου κατά της δουλείας. Εκεί, ένα εκτενές δίκτυο μυστικών πρακτόρων εργάζονται για την απελευθέρωση των μαύρων σκλάβων. Ο Χάιραμ εντάσσεται στον πόλεμο του Υπόγειου Δικτύου, αλλά λαχταρά να επιστρέψει στη δική του, ακόμη σκλαβωμένη, οικογένεια. Για να το καταφέρει, θα χρειαστεί πρώτα να τιθασεύσει τη μυστηριώδη του δύναμη. Μια συναρπαστική ιστορία αντοχής αλλά και αντίστασης στις διακρίσεις, στην καταπίεση και στον αποχωρισμό. Ο Ta-Nehisi Coates φαντάζεται έναν κρυφό πόλεμο ενός σκλαβωμένου λαού ως απάντηση σε μια ανθρώπινη φρικαλεότητα που διαρκεί για ολόκληρες γενιές, έναν πόλεμο για το δικαίωμα στη ζωή, την οικογένεια, τη δικαιοσύνη και την ελευθερία.

Collects Captain America (2018) #20-25. Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his blockbuster examination of the Living Legend! Steve Rogers has given up being Captain America. Framed, disgraced and hunted, he has been forced underground — but he’s not down and out yet. If Cap embodies any one thing, it is perseverance in the face of evil. He’s been fighting his way back to the light one step at a time. And the hour is drawing nigh when Steve will once again pick up the shield and don the stars and stripes! But which of his closest allies will do the same with the armor of the Iron Patriot? And who will be the new Agent 13? Just as the Sentinel of Liberty returns, so too does his greatest enemy — and now, Steve Rogers must marshal his forces to face the reborn Red Skull!

Adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, this father-son story explores how boys become men, and quite specifically, how Ta-Nehisi Coates became Ta-Nehisi Coates. As a child, Ta-Nehisi Coates was seen by his father, Paul, as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who''d been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization. When it came to his sons, he was committed to raising proud Black men equipped to deal with a racist society, during a turbulent period in the collapsing city of Baltimore where they lived. Coates details with candor the challenges of dealing with his tough-love father, the influence of his mother, and the dynamics of his extended family, including his brother "Big Bill," who was on a very different path than Ta-Nehisi. Coates also tells of his struggles at school and with girls, making this a timely story to which many readers will relate.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. Praise for The Water Dancer “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone

Collects Black Panther (2018) #1-12. A bold new direction for the Black Panther! For years, T’Challa has protected Wakanda from all invaders. Now, he will discover that his kingdom is much bigger than he ever dreamed. Prepare to journey to the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! A Panther story unlike any other begins with T’Challa as a stranger in a strange land — with no memory of his past, only the suffering of a present spent toiling in the Vibranium mines. But all hope is not lost. A rebellion is growing — and they have a plan. Who will lead these lost citizens? What is the M’Kraan Shard? And what role will Erik Killmonger play?! Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his ever-surprising saga of a king who sought to be a hero…a hero who was reduced to a slave…a slave who became a legend!

Ta-Nehisi Coates ha scritto l''epopea di una nazione soffocata, un romanzo di formazione irresistibile come un libro d''avventura, intimo come una storia d''amore, potente come la promessa di un mondo piú giusto. «L''oblio è la vera schiavitú, dice un personaggio del romanzo, l''oblio è la vera morte. È ciò che rende Il danzatore dell''acqua un''opera senza tempo, degna di essere annoverata tra i classici della letteratura contemporanea». «Rolling Stone»

Auf der Flucht vor dem Gesetz und von Nick Fury gejagt, schlagen Steve Rogers und die Daughters of Liberty zurück. Der erste Schritt ist ein Trip an die Grenze mit Kung-Fu-Meisterin White Tiger, um der Organisation namens THEM auf den Zahn zu fühlen. Kann Cap seine Unschuld beweisen, während ein alter Bekannter mit einem neuen Gesicht eine Spur des Blutes hinterlässt?

Collects Black Panther (2018) #13-18. Has T’Challa learned what it means to be king just in time to lose his kingdom? Weeks ago, the Black Panther disappeared on a mission into deep space, leaving behind his country, his family and the woman he loves. Now, at last, find out what Wakanda Prime has done without its king! And light-years away, as the race against Emperor N’Jadaka’s expansion continues, the goddess Bast makes a dramatic move and T’Challa reaches out for the life he left behind! The Maroons are looking to turn the tide, but when N’Jadaka comes for his revenge, will T’Challa’s plan be enough to free those the Empire has enslaved and open his pathway home? And even if he can, can he truly rid himself of the Intergalactic Empire and its despotic ruler?

Collects Captain America (2018) #7-12. Captain America — wanted for murder! Accused and in custody, Steve Rogers has become a captain of nothing. With no costume, with no shield, and trapped behind bars with a thousand villains and killers who’d like nothing more than to see him dead, Steve fights back — and he can do it all day! But as the Power Elite makes its play, who stands with Cap? A prison riot is the best possible cover to break Steve out of confinement, but what if he doesn’t want to go? Steve Rogers might end up a fugitive, but that doesn’t mean he’ll give up the fight to prove his innocence and bring the true murderer to justice. Not by a long shot! It’s time for Cap to try a new tactic!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. Praise for The Water Dancer “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone

Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011) #7, Captain Marvel (2012) #1, Iron Man (2012) #1, Guardians Of The Galaxy (2013) #4, Edge Of Spider-Verse #2, Ms. Marvel (2014) #12, Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #3, Mighty Thor (2015) #5, Black Panther (2016) #1, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015b) #7 and Thanos (2016) #1. Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade. The blockbuster icons and bold new generation of the trailblazing 2010s! As iconic heroes enjoyed worldwide cinematic success, a diverse array of young champions stole the spotlight! Find your favorite movie stars in outstanding adventures by the best modern creators - from Iron Man, Black Panther, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel...to Thanos! And get to know the new kids on the block - Miles Morales; Spider-Gwen; Thor, Goddess of Thunder; the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl; and Kamala Khan, the incomparable Ms. Marvel!

With a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda on the horizon, T''Challa struggles to find balance in his roles as king and the Black Panther. His people are restless, a superhuman terrorist group sparks a violent uprising, two former Dora Milaje become Midnight Angels to liberate oppressed Wakandans, and his sister, Shuri, is trapped between life and death. T''Challa knows Wakanda needs to change to survive, but can he survive the change? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

Collects Black Panther (2018) #7-12. The Maroons strike back! You watched them steal the M’Kraan Shard from the empire. Now the rebels are ready to show who they really are. “He Who Put the Blade Where It Belonged” retakes his rightful title, and the Black Panther is reborn! With the Panther once again among their ranks, they’re certain of victory — but at what cost? T’Challa faces a creature of nightmare and journeys to the home world of the Between, the place where N’Jadaka’s rise began! But what he learns there will lead him to question the rebellion’s very foundation. Will Bast’s champion ever be fully restored? Learn at last how the king of Wakanda found himself a slave in the Vibranium mines of a half-familiar world as T’Challa’s lost past is revealed!

Über 70 Jahre hat Captain America Land und Leute treu verteidigt. Aber Hydras Regime hat Spuren hinterlassen. Cap ist nun eine kontroverse Person, das Volk gespalten. Während er um Schadensbegrenzung kämpft, versucht eine Gruppe von Meinungsführern, Werte und Symbole der Nation zu korrumpieren. Wer sind Power Elite? Und ist es zu spät, sie aufzuhalten?

Collecting Black Panther (2018) #1-6. A bold new direction for the Black Panther! For years, Tu0092Challa has protected Wakanda from all invaders. Now, he will discover that his kingdom is much bigger than he ever dreamed. Across the vast Multiverse lies an empire founded in Tu0092Challau0092s name. Readers caught a glimpse of it in MARVEL LEGACY #1. Now learn the truth behind the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda! A Panther story unlike any other begins with Tu0092Challa as a stranger in a strange land u0097 with no memory of his past, only the suffering of a present spent toiling in the Vibranium mines. But all hope is not lost. A rebellion is growing u0097 and they have a plan. But who will lead these lost citizens? Where is the Black Panther? And what is the Mu0092Kraan Shard?

In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump. New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • USA Today • Time • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Essence • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Week • Kirkus Reviews *Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.” But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period—and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation’s old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective—the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates’s iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including “Fear of a Black President,” “The Case for Reparations,” and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’s own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.

Die neuen Abenteuer von Marvels afrikanischem Helden, geschrieben vom preisgekrönten Autor Ta-Nehisi Coates. Black PanthersErzfeind Ulysses Klaw nimmt ganz Wakanda ins Visier! T''Challa und seine zum Teil ungewöhnlichen Verbündeten müssen alles geben, um das Vermächtnis ihrer Nation zu retten. Plus: Eine weitere Sichtung des Rückkehrers Wolverine!

Klaw est le pire ennemi de la Panthère Noire mais aussi l''assassin de son père. Lorsqu''il refait surface, le criminel réunit un groupe composé de sombres individus et d''anciennes divinités pour mettre le Wakanda à feu et à sang. Comment T''Challa pourra-t-il s''en sortir alors que son pays traverse déjà une crise sans précédent due à l''ultime guerre civile ?

Collecting Rise Of The Black Panther #1-6. The secret origin of Tu0092Challa, the Black Panther! Wakanda has always kept itself isolated from Western society, but thatu0092s about to change. Young Tu0092Challa knows heu0092s destined to become king, but when his father is murdered by outsiders, he finds himself taking up a mantle he may not be ready for. Experience the troubled reign of King Tu0092Chaka! Discover the mother Tu0092Challa never knew! And see how the world first learns of the wondrous nation of Wakanda u0097 including Namor, King of Atlantis; the Winter Soldier; and the ruler of Latveria, Doctor Doom! Plus: As Erik Killmonger makes a devastating move, a missing chapter of Tu0092Challa and Stormu0092s lifelong romance comes to light u0097 and the Black Panther must decide his unique role in a world full of super heroes!