Known and Strange Things

A collection of essays on art, literature, politics and place, on subjects ranging from Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin and WG Sebald to President Obama, Palestine and Boko Haram. Many of the essays in the collection have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe. Over the course of these remarkable essays, we follow the arc of Teju Cole's thinking over time, propelled forward by his captivating voice and ever-incisive eye. Including his famous essay on Charlie Hebdo.