Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to soul singer D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B, and racial politics, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture the red-hot intensity at the intersection of art, literature, and politics in the twenty-first century. In "Notes on Trap, " McCarthy borrows a conceit from Susan Sontag to dissect the significance of trap music in American society, while in "The Master's Tools, " Velazquez becomes a lens through which to view Kehinde Wiley's paintings. Essays on John Edgar Wideman, Terrance Hayes, and Claudia Rankine survey the state of black letters. In "The Time of the Assassins, " McCarthy, a black American raised in France, writes about returning to Paris after the Bataclan massacre and finding a nation in mourning but dangerously unchanged. Taken together, these essays portray a brilliant critic at work, making sense of our dislocated times while seeking to transform our understanding of race and art, identity and representation.