Ta-Nehisi Coates' new novel, set during the era of slavery, follows a young black man who discovers that his memories trigger a mysterious power of teleportation that can help escaped slaves flee.

It took Ta-Nehisi Coates 10 years to imagine the world of enslaved people he depicts in "The Water Dancer," the acclaimed author's highly anticipated debut novel. The book tells the story of an ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the furthest reach of that power as a means to transcend borders and bondage in “The Water Dancer,” a spellbinding look at the impact of slavery that uses ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first novel, “The Water Dancer,” will be published in September by One World, an imprint of Random House, and now, it has a cover.The image, painted by the artist Calida ...

Now, Coates has unveiled yet another creative direction by publishing a novel called “The Water Dancer.” While neither polemical nor wholly fantastical, the story draws on skills he developed ...

That’s how Ta-Nehisi Coates opens “The Water Dancer,” his electrifying, inventive novel about an African-American man’s escape from bondage.

Coates’s book, about a slave who has the ability to vanish from one place and appear in another, has echoes of work by Gabriel García Márquez, Colson Whitehead and Stephen King.

The Water Dancer, Coates’ meditation on the legacy of slavery, is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. The novel opens with two men crashing a horse-drawn ...

Deep in the morass of antebellum Virginia, the enslaved protagonist of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel lurches toward freedom. The Water Dancer follows a young man named Hiram Walker, whose ...

This article appears in the November 11/18, 2019 issue.. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. American history has always been a weapon in the hands of Ta-Nehisi Coates. As a blogger and columnist for ...

Oprah Winfrey talks Book Club pick with Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Water Dancer" 04:41. Tune in to "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday for more with Coates on the inspiration for his novel.