'I Feel as if I've Been Where You Have Been'
The XX won the Mercury Prize. I feel like the only person in the world who never quite got into that record. Long-time readers will know I was rooting for Wild Beasts. Such rooting shall continue now...
About the Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.