Suketu Mehta: "Trumpists fear that the United States will cease to be a white country in 2044"

Writer Suketu Mehta during the Jaipur Literature Festival (India) in January 2020 Hindustan Times / Hindustan Times via Getty Images

The writer Suketu Mehta (Calcutta, 58 years old) combines the narrative skills of the reporter who kicks the sites and the theoretical reflection of someone who has spent years metabolizing the subject matter.

During a talk about his latest book,

(Random House), shells pearls on the notion of identity ("we are assuming it by layers"), the global phenomenon of the world in motion ("migration is no longer something linear; it is becoming more circular") and a city, New York, in whose university he teaches Journalism, and “that offers the most interesting ...

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