pstrongA collection of the emNew Yorkerem'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 CobbstrongppThis latest anthology from the pages of the emNew Yorkerem is a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, em emfeaturing astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin's Letter from a Region in My Mind which later formed the basis of emThe Fire Next Timeem 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 lix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, emThe Matter of Black Livesem includes a wide array of material from the emNew Yorkerem archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. The book addr