Bard College Distinguished Writer in Residence Teju Cole is a Nigerian/ American novelist, essayist, art historian and photography columnist for The New York Times. His debut novel Open City was highly praised and his recent collection of essays, Known and Strange Things, was named one of the best books of the year by both Time and The Guardian.

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