Vanity Fair UK - 09.2019

The

BEAUTIFUL POWER

Photographs by

ANNIE

LEIBOVITZ

by

JESMYN

WARD

With his groundbreaking

books and articles,

Ta-Nehisi Coates

has emerged as our

most vital public intellectual.

Now, his debut novel,

The Water Dancer,

takes him to

uncharted depths

Coates, photographed in Brooklyn, wears his own Gant coat and Brooks Brothers

suit and shirt. Sittings editor, Samira Nasr.