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’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 ...

The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Penguin Random House: 416 pages., $28. Barton is a former Times staff writer now based in Portland, Ore. More to Read . 30 must-read books for summer.

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.

Ta-nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me.So naturally ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.