Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. His latest cover story is "The Case for Reparations."

"The writer hopes for change, but writers can't assume that their work is going to cause change."

Thanks to TinyLetter andI Am Zlatan, the international bestseller published by Random House, for sponsoring this week's episode.

Show Notes:

@tanehisicoates

Coates's blog for The Atlantic

Coates on Longform

"The Case for Reparations" (The Atlantic • May 2014)

[4:20] "Longform Podcast #7: Ta-Nehisi Coates"

[4:35] "Fear of a Black President" (The Atlantic • Aug 2012)

[7:05] "The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy" (The Atlantic • May 2014)

[8:05] "For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones" (Kyle Spencer • New York Times • Oct 2012)

[10:08] Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Kenneth Jacks • Oxford University Press • 1985)

[16:10] "The Story of the Contract Buyers League" (James Alan McPherson • The Atlantic • Apr 1972) [pdf]

[18:53] "Zlatan’s Revenge!" An excerpt from I Am Zlatan (Zlatan Ibrahimovic • Grantland • May 2014)

[19:18] Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores "maybe the best goal ever scored" [YouTube]

[40:40] "Ta-Nehisi Coates Disagrees With ‘Jonathan Chait,’ and So Do I" (Jonathan Chait • New York • Mar 2014)

[43:15] Elizabeth Kolbert on Longform

[51:07] "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek " (John Branch • New York Times • Dec 2012)

[58:23] Nobody Knows My Name (James Baldwin • Dial Press • 1961)

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