![]() But one immediately gets the sense that, for him, the American South is primarily a landscape of tragic memories. This essay, like much of the book, reveals Cole’s extraordinary talent and his capacious mind. In Teju Cole’s brilliant new book of essays, Known and Strange Things, he writes of a trip to Selma, Ala. But apart from his marketability-that people can use him as an avatar of supposed seriousness-what does Baldwin offer us in this moment? What does he force us, as Americans, to confront? ![]() His words inspire on social media his phrases speak from T-shirts his face covers a throw pillow on Etsy. ![]() ![]() To account for the latest disasters around race in this country-grief over the death of another black person at the hands of police the fact that we have vomited up the likes of Donald Trump-activists often reach for him. ![]()
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