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Teju Cole

Teju Cole is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. His most recent book, Open City, won the 2012 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.

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Water Has No Enemy

Teju Cole

‘The city is a sea that can swallow you at any time, a monster that can lash out without warning, a hell of variables and uncertainties.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Six Brazilian Songs

Teju Cole

I first experienced Brazilian music subliminally when I was growing up in Lagos in the...

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Blind Spot

Teju Cole

‘I heard faint noises, the occasional car going down another street, a voice lightly thrown from its unseen body, the hum of distant machines, and the sound of my own breathing as I put one foot in. ’

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Home: reflections for Anthony Shadid

Various Contributors

Photo by Nada Bakri. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which tells...

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