Daylight Come

Harry Belafonte's been dead three years and just landed on the bestseller list anyway. Daylight Come, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's biography of the Harlem-born son of Caribbean immigrants who turned calypso into American pop and bankrolled the civil rights movement's road trips, published August 4th at 384 pages. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times before a single copy shipped.