Lessons in travels

The Message is, as described by the Associated Press, “part memoir, part travelogue, and part writing primer” written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In the book, Coates writes: “I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel.” The book’s longest section is Coates talking about his travels to Palestine, which reminded him how easily nationalist narratives can mislead us. He also talks  about justice being a personal war.