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  Title

  Known and strange things : essays

  Author

  Cole, Teju  

  Publisher:

  Random House,

  Pub date:

  2016.

  Description:

  xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  0812989783

  Item info:

  3 copies currently available - Tuckahoe Library, Libbie Mill Library, and Fairfield Area Library.
  

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  0

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    824.92 COLE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
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    824.92 COLE	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
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  Known and strange things : essays
  Cole, Teju
  

  Personal Author:

  Cole, Teju

  Title:

  Known and strange things : essays / Teju Cole.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Random House, 2016.

  Physical descrip:

  xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm

  General Note:

  Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals.

  Contents:

  Reading things. Black body ; Natives on the boat ; Housing Mr. Biswas ; Tomas Tranströmer ; Poetry of the disregarded ; Always returning ; A better quality of agony ; Derek Walcott ; Aciman's alibis ; Double negative ; In place of thought ; A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon -- Seeing things. Unnamed lake ; Wangechi Mutu ; Age, actually ; An African Caesar ; Peter Sculthorpe ; Red shift ; John Berger ; Portrait of a lady ; Object lesson ; Saul Leiter ; A true picture of black skin ; Gueorgui Pinkhassov ; Perfect and unrehearsed ; Disappearing Shanghai ; Touching strangers ; Finders keepers ; Google's macchia ; The atlas of affect ; Memories of things unseen ; Death in the browser tab ; The unquiet sky ; Against neutrality -- Being there. Far away from here ; Home strange home ; The reprint ; A reader's war ; Madmen and specialists ; What it is ; Kofi Awoonor ; Captivity ; In Alabama ; Bad laws ; Brazilian Earth ; Angels in winter ; Shadows in São Paulo ; Two weeks ; The island ; Reconciliation ; Break it down ; The white savior industrial complex ; "Perplexed ... perplexed" -- A piece of the wall -- Blind spot.

  Held by:

  TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL FAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

  Subject term:

  Essays.

  Subject term:

  Aesthetics--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  Literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  Politics and literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  African American photographers--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  African American authors--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  African American politicians--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  Black lives matter movement.

  Geographic term:

  Africa--Foreign relations--History and criticism.

  Genre index term:

  Essays. lcgft