Teju Cole: Take Lots of Pictures

Please join us for the 2025 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture by Teju Cole.

 

TEJU COLE is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. He is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book is the novel Tremor (2023), named a book of the year by Time, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the Times (UK), and the Financial Times, among others. It was shortlisted for the National Critics Circle Book Award, and was awarded the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. The Department of Africana Studies at Tulane University has selected Tremor as the subject of this semester's Black Studies Book Club.