![]() Hiram is one of the Tasked (Coates, with his characteristically careful eye for language, almost never refers to slavery as anything but the Task in this book) on the plantation of Lockless, and he has a bottomless, hungry memory. The Water Dancer centers on a young man named Hiram living in antebellum Virginia. The Water Dancer showcases the clarity of Coates’s ideas and the poetry of his language ![]() He’s an okay novelist who can write the hell out of a sentence. He’s a genuinely great writer and everyone knows it he doesn’t have to prove that to anyone.īut with Coates’s first novel, The Water Dancer, out this week, it’s clear that Ta-Nehisi Coates is not yet a great novelist. He’s the kind of essayist who knows both how to use data to ground an argument and how to use poetry to lift it up and make it sing. ![]() Ta-Nehisi Coates is such a great essayist that he more or less single-handedly resurrected the conversation about reparations for black Americans. You don’t need me to tell you that Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of America’s greatest living writers. ![]()
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