Teju Cole: 'We are living in a world that is constructed for whiteness'

Teju Cole’s new book, Blind Spot, is a powerful juxtaposition of photography and text which doesn’t feature many human faces. […]

close Cancel email link share Share bookmark Save Teju Cole’s new book, Blind Spot , is a powerful juxtaposition of photography and text which doesn’t feature many human faces. There are no pictures of himself, though as he explains it’s not that he leaves himself out but is more artful about how he’s in. Cole describes his latest book as “another reiteration – perhaps the most explicit so far – of my long-term concern with the limits of vision” – a theme he’s engagingly explored in his novels Open City and Every Day is for the Thief , and essays. In Blind Spot we encounter striking streetscap

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