Persuasive and provocative erudite yet accessible known and strange things is an opportunity to live within teju coles wide ranging enthusiasms curiosities and passions and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames. Persuasive and provocative erudite yet accessible known and strange things is an opportunity to live within teju coles wide ranging enthusiasms curiosities and passions and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames. Known and strange things essays is a collection of essays on a variety of topics one section is devoted to photography a subject a teju cole is a novelist photographer and essayist he is an american citizen born here but raised in nigeria. Persuasive and provocative erudite yet accessible known and strange things is an opportunity to live within teju coles wide ranging enthusiasms curiosities and passions and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames praise for known and strange things