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From the moment that Trayvon Martin’s senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, the United States has been convulsed by new social movements — around guns, gender violence, sexual harassment, race, policing, and on and on — and an equally powerful backlash that abetted the rise of the MAGA movement. In this collection of dispatches, mostly published in The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb pulls the signal from the noise of this chaotic era. Cobb’s work as a reporter takes readers to the front lines of sometimes violent conflict, and he uses his gifts as a critic and historian to crack open the meaning of it all. Through narrative journalism, criticism, and penetrating profiles, Cobb’s writing captures the crises, characters, movements, and art of an era — and helps readers understand what might be coming next. Cobb has added new material to this collection — retrospective pieces that bring these stories up-to-date and tie them together, shaping these powerful short dispatches into a cohesive narrative of one of the most consequential periods in recent U.S. history. [Adapted from publishers’ description.] ISBN: 9780593978207 | One World |
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Praise
A gripping anthology of Cobb’s writing. . . . Cobb is unfailingly modest about his insight and the power of his work to effect change. But that modesty belies the fact that Cobb’s writing makes us feel the injustice deeply. . . . It is foremost a stirring catalog of institutions lost, of other lives cut short. On the rare occasions when he inserts his personal experience into the journalism, the result is a rich and satisfying creation. — The New York Times Book Review
Cobb offers an expansive collection of his published essays. . . . The volume includes political reportage, thoughtful cultural criticism . . . and obituaries and profiles. . . . The collection’s through line is Cobb’s sharp exploration of how America’s history of white supremacy continues to influence contemporary events. — Publishers Weekly
Each essay is a vivid snapshot of the America that existed at the time and a glimpse at the one that might have been, ultimately showing the reader the how of what America came to be. — Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point
Three or More Is a Riot is an archive of a writer at the height of his powers — and his powers are many. Insight, historical memory, reportage, pith, and, not least of all, wit. All these gifts he deploys here without missing a beat, effortlessly weaving them into his own distinctive style. We live in a time when writers like Cobb are being targeted by the highest powers in this nation. Read this book to understand why. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
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