ARGONAUT BOOKS

Coates originally set off 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. Reviews The Message charts Coates's re-entry as a public intellectual . . . The rolling, elegiac cadences of much of his earlier work have yielded to a fury that's harder edged. But a sense of shock also seems to have elicited in Coates a sense of possibility . . . [Coates] is using ...Read More