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Teju Cole

Teju Cole
Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of seven books, which include Open City, Blind Spot, and Golden Apple of the Sun. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard.


Teju Cole on the Wonder of Epiphanic Writing

Or: How Authors “Evoke the Overspilling World”
October 26, 2021  By Teju Cole

The Sense in Turning Away

A Photo Essay by Teju Cole
April 13, 2015  By Teju Cole
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