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The National Book Award winner’s first foray into fiction melds the fantastical with the brutality of human bondage
Its use began among black activists before going mainstream
An essay collection traces the development of a public intellectual against the backdrop of the Obama years
The American writer hailed as the intellectual heir to James Baldwin has moved to Paris. Over sea bream and ‘le cheesecake’, he talks to Simon Kuper about race, riots and Barack Obama
Theory that controversy over death is inhibiting police sparks debate over law enforcement and race
‘I thought Blair was, in his words, “a pretty straight kind of guy”. Lest this sound insane, most Britons in 2001 thought so too’
A long letter from a father to his son eloquently exposes racism in America
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