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2 months ago | 
internazionale.it | Teju Cole
La luce delle foto che ci arrivano da Los Angeles è soprannaturale, anche se questa è la parola sbagliata. Cinematografica? Neanche questa è adatta: non c’è nessuna finzione negli incendi o nelle sagome di figure umane che cercano di scappare dal fuoco o di affrontarlo.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Teju Cole
The glow in the photos coming out of Los Angeles is otherworldly, though that is precisely the wrong term. Cinematic? That isn’t quite right, either: too painfully apt for Tinseltown, but also not accurate. There is nothing make-believe about the fires, or the silhouetted human figures who flee from or confront them.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
independent.ng | Teju Cole
TEJU COLE One night in April 2011, I stayed up late, reading the final pages of Virginia Woolf’s diaries. Those pages, written in late 1940 and early 1941, were about the loss of her London home in the war, her terrible nervousness about the ongoing air raids, the unexpected death of Joyce, her love for Leonard, her engagement with literature and, above all, her losing battle against depression.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
yalereview.org | Teju Cole
Teju Cole A version of this essay was delivered in February 2024 as the Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center. The Finzi-Contini lectureship was endowed in 1990 by the Honorable Guido Calabresi, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former Dean of the Yale Law School, and Dr. Paul Calabresi, in memory of their mother, Bianca Maria Finzi-Contini Calabresi. Read Meghan O’Rourke’s introduction to the 2024 Finzi-Contini Lecture here. 1.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
corriere.it | Teju Cole
Le foglie scure sono lucide e dai fiori avvizziti arriva un profumo che potrebbe essere gelsomino. Prepara il treppiede e inizia a mettere a fuoco. Ha scattato due volte quando gli gridano qualcosa dalla casa a destra. Non è la prima volta che gli succede, ma sussulta comunque.Risponde sforzandosi di assumere un tono cordiale, dice che è un artista, che sta solo fotografando una siepe. Non puoi, è proprietà privata, dice la voce. Sente i muscoli della schiena tendersi.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
whc.yale.edu | Teju Cole
Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of several books. He was born in the United States in 1975 to Nigerian parents and was raised in Lagos. His books include the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, the novel Open City, the experimental photo book Blind Spot, and, most recently, the novel Tremor.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
esquire.com.au | Sam Peters |Matthew Lamb |Teju Cole |Sandra Rendgen
By Sam PetersOne of the biggest stories in sport this year has been the code-agnostic issue of concussion, and the duty of care sporting bodies owe to players who experience head injuries. Written by British sports journalist and whistleblower Sam Peters, who, in 2014, transformed the issue of sport-related concussions in rugby into a global conversation, this book asks hard- hitting questions the AFL and NRL have been tiptoeing around for years.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Teju Cole
Atta Otigba and Yetide Badaki give outstanding performances of this imagistic, nonlinear novel. They are grand guides to a world of art, history, and criticism. Badaki has precise diction and a lovely artistic tone with a slight Nigerian lilt. Otigba, also Nigerian, delivers his parts in a powerful and authoritative voice. The narrative switches from one to the other seamlessly. Badaki introduces the protagonist, a photographer and professor of art, who, like the author, teaches at Harvard.
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Teju Cole
CompromisedShe was a serious woman, a small woman with a heavy manner, though some later recalled a twinkle in her eye, and others a dry sense of humor. I remember only that her presence was full of undescribed life and uncheapened by conclusions. But, ah, when she began to sing, the seriousness was like oil she had saved for a day of need. The song came out of her light and young, a hint at what she must have been before we knew her. She held the final note of each phrase for a long time.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
csmonitor.com | Amanda Peters |Teju Cole |Paul Vidich |Tan Twan Eng
1 The Berry Pickersby Amanda PetersAfter their youngest daughter, Ruthie, vanishes during a summer of berry-picking in Maine, a Micmac family from Nova Scotia struggles to move forward. Indigenous Voices Award winner Amanda Peters delivers an un-put-down-able novel of identity, forgiveness, and insistent hope. 2 Tremorby Teju ColeTunde, a Nigerian professor living in the United States, grounds Teju Cole’s novel of ideas, moods, views, and questions.
