I’m feeling a bit jet lagged and culture shocked at the moment,” a smiling Teju Cole says via Zoom from his house in Cambridge, Mass., near Harvard, where he has been teaching writing since 2019.
The Nigerian American author, photographer, and art historian just returned from a six-week trip to Europe that included stops in France, Switzerland, and the U.K., and has been busy cataloguing his photos and thinking of how he might use them in a future project.
“My sense of curiosity wants to witness things firsthand,” says Cole,…
