KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS/ ESSAYS

With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his p lace as one of todays most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives M atter/ the ...[Llegir més]