Known and Strange Things: Essays

Teju Cole
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The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin to President Obama and Boko Haram. The collection will include pre-published essays that have gone viral, like “The White Industrial Savior Complex,” first published in The Atlantic.
Genres: EssaysNonfictionArtHistoryPoliticsPhotographyRaceTravelAfricaNigeria
416 Pages

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