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 | 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.
Art & Photography | Issue 152
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.’
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 | Issue 124
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 & Memoir | Issue 124
Six Brazilian Songs
Teju Cole
Teju Cole shares six favourite Brazilian songs.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 124
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.’
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.’