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Teju Cole

Teju Cole’s recent books include the essay collection Known and Strange Things and the photobook Fernweh. He is a professor in the Department of English at Harvard University. Photograph © Maggie-Janik

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Art & Photography | Issue 152 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 152 padlock

Arbos

Teju Cole

‘I made many pictures of such trees, and each time, some analogy to art would impress itself on me, the more so because of the universally locked museum doors.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 120
Essays & Memoir | Issue 120

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.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 120
Essays & Memoir | Issue 120

Home: Reflections for Anthony Shadid

Various Contributors

‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’

Art & Photography | The Online Edition
Art & Photography | The Online Edition

Interview

Teju Cole & Alice Zoo

‘Each successive image has to have the simultaneous feeling of being unanticipated and of being right.’

Teju Cole speaks to Alice Zoo about sequencing, portraiture, and the interplay between image and text.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Teju Cole

‘What is this elsewhere that one is longing to be in? Part of the answer to this question, for me, is Switzerland.’

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

Six Brazilian Songs

Teju Cole

Teju Cole shares six favourite Brazilian songs.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 124 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 124 padlock

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.’

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