![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, having read Claudia Rankine's exceptional Citizen, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, I wanted to read a contemporary book about race and immigration in the U.K. and felt like I wanted to do something more positive than just whine on Twitter all the time. Nikesh Shukla: I was increasingly irritated by the lack of British writers of color being published in the U.K. ![]() version (published in 2016), and Chimene Suleyman, poet and columnist, about putting the book together, the need for new immigrant narratives, and the politics of being an artist. We speak to co-editors, Nikesh Shukla, who also edited the U.K. In a new book The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, a wide-ranging group of writers, from comedians to journalists to poets, explore what being an immigrant, or the child of an immigrant, in the U.S. What makes a good immigrant? If the media is anything to go by, a good immigrant is someone who works hard, integrates into society, behaves themselves, becomes an athlete or a film star or saves a life-someone who must prove their worth to their new country. ![]()
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