Why people recommend it
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a powerful exploration of race in America structured as a letter from a father to his teenage son. Josh Dubin recommended the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, calling it a life-altering tale that provides crucial perspective on growing up as a Black man in America and helps bridge societal understanding. Conversely, Glenn Loury discussed the bestseller on The Tucker Carlson Show, acknowledging its wide acclaim while reiterating deep criticisms he had previously explored at length on his own podcast. Megyn Kelly and her guests on The Megyn Kelly Show engaged in extensive critical discussions regarding a later book by Coates, frequently referencing his earlier works and stylistic approaches when analyzing his commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, media bias, and political discourse. Across these various podcast episodes, speakers evaluated the profound emotional resonance of his writing style, with some praising its ability to illuminate personal experiences of systemic racism, while others sharply contested the ideological frameworks and conclusions presented in his politically charged works.
Who recommended it
- Megyn Kelly Discussed
- Glenn Loury Discussed
- Pamela Paul Discussed
- Thomas Chatterton Williams Discussed
- Josh Dubin Recommended
- Jennifer Schuessler Discussed
- Wesley Morris Discussed
- Carlos Lozada Discussed
- Greg Cowles Discussed
- John Williams Discussed
- Suzanne Santo Discussed
- Piers Morgan Discussed
- Chelsea handler Discussed
- Bryan Callen Discussed
Megyn Kelly — 5 mentions
Critiqued
“So he wrote this book; he decided to meander over into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because what we really needed was his take. You'll be shocked to learn he reduced it to skin color; shocked to learn it's about colonialism for him.”
Critiqued
“I have to say when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away, the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist. Why leave out that Israel deals”
Critiqued
“It's what I struggled with throughout this book; what is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place and not any of the other states out there?”
Critiqued
“God forbid, who's, by the way, not only is he Jewish, but he has an ex-wife who lives in Israel with his children, so he's got a lot of knowledge about this region and has standing, if you will, to object to the one-sided nature of Coates's book and was totally within the bounds of reason in doing so, all”
Critiqued
“You stay around just literally three more minutes for the listening audience if you want to catch that, and you should because if you didn't see Ta-Nehisi Coates on CBS, you should, it was amazing as he got really pressed on his new book that bashes Israel by a CBS news host who wasn't having it.”
Glenn Loury — 2 mentions
Critiqued
“And then he published a best-selling `` book called Between the World and Me `` which `` was `` very widely praised and `` widely read and I had `` deep problems with it which I discussed at length on the podcast.”
Discussed
“And then he published a best-selling uh book called Between the World and Me which uh was uh very widely praised and uh widely read and I had uh deep problems with it which I discussed at length on the podcast.”
Pamela Paul — 2 mentions
Discussed
“and then at number three between the world and Me by Tana Hy coats just a Jugger nod of a book there one of our 10 best”
Discussed
“and in non-fiction Jen in non-fiction we have between the world and Me by Tanana hassy coats”
Thomas Chatterton Williams — 2 mentions
Critiqued
“Um but there's an astonishing kind of passage in Between the World and Me where he basically sees um a kind of caricature of an upper class or wealthy um Frenchman in a in a beautiful car smoking a cigarette and he imagines him going on to have some type of amazing night and kind of living this kind of”
Discussed
“But there's an astonishing kind of passage in Between the World and Me where he basically sees a kind of caricature of an upper-class or wealthy Frenchman in a beautiful car smoking a cigarette.”
Josh Dubin — 1 mention
Recommended
“read T coats's book between the world and me it's a fascinating [ __ ] tale it's a letter written from this you know black man to his 15-year-old son and and it is um it's a life aldering book for me”
Jennifer Schuessler — 1 mention
Discussed
“James Baldwins the fire next time was sort of an inspiration for tanahi coats's Memoir between the world and me”
Wesley Morris — 1 mention
Discussed
“tas's book came out you know a year ago a couple weeks ago and I think I might have looked at it the week after it came out the the book and then I looked at it in February and it was still on the list”
Carlos Lozada — 1 mention
Discussed
“but I think especially in in recent years perhaps following the success in a claim of between the world and Me by tanasi coats you've seen a lot of these books”
Greg Cowles — 1 mention
Discussed
“go had a Watchman on the fiction side and between the world and me on the non-fiction side”
John Williams — 1 mention
Discussed
“tanas book came out you know a year ago a couple weeks ago and I think I might have looked at it the week after it came out the the book”
Suzanne Santo — 1 mention
Discussed
“like I I read tahanasi coates's book between the world and me and and then I read Douglas Murray”
Piers Morgan — 1 mention
Discussed
“so I read the art of the deal his book about four times before I went out there and just played it tough and hard”
Chelsea handler — 1 mention
Discussed
“and that's what i spent my time doing last year reading books you know like james baldwin and tony see coates and or however you say his name i always screw it up”
Bryan Callen — 1 mention
Discussed
“I've read a lot of Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ta-Nehisi is, you know, would be considered on the sort of left side of the spectrum in black intelligentsia.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 1
Discussed
“T Hy coats one for between the world and me which is his collection”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“And she had sent out all those wacky tweets about wanting to pay reparations and reading the the case for reparations. And then he got to her. She's like, I never read that book really. Then why did you tweet? You tweet you tweeted that you did. I don't remember ever doing that. He tweeted, "I took the whole day”
Passing
“You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.”
Passing
“I think I maybe I was working on wei8 years in power whatever I signed up to go like maybe two years later broke my toe could not go”
Passing
“and the one that I'm going to talk about this week is James Baldwin's the fire next time which a lot of people have been talking about for not just the the past couple of months in America but also since tanasi coats I think sort of modeled his book between the world and me after part of this book”
Passing
“and then you have hillbilly elgy but I really feel like and then you know two down you have between the world and me it's like people are really trying to understand what's going on right now”
Passing
“at number one um on the non-fiction list there's a new title there tanahi coats between the world and me”
Passing
“tanassi coats's book between the world and me was mentioned that's a number one bestseller”
Passing
“new it number one which knocks tanahi coats uh between the world and me out of the top spot down to number two”
Passing
“it looks like some of the favorites are Lauren grath's the fates and Furies she was shortlisted for the circus prize this week as was a ton hassy coats for between the world and me”
Passing
“so it's about bodies much the way tanasi coats's book is about bodies except not at all right I was waiting for that I allowed to beat there um I'm trying to put us in the same class assuming your readers will and your listeners will fall for it for readers of Tanana hay coats's book enjoy gazing so on”
Passing
“still the T coats has has been on the list now for over a year um between the world and me is still at number five”
Passing
“and then you know two down you have between the world and me”
Passing
“between the world and me”
Passing
“like one of them was tanahasi coates book um between the world and me and four others that were kind of like that”
Passing
“the enemy i think is one of his right”