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Known and Strange Things: Essays

Known and Strange Things: Essays

by Teju Cole

Published for the first time: 8/9/2016

416 pages, Unknown Binding

Genres: Photography, History, Art, Politics, Nonfiction, Essays, Race

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.

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