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Teju Cole's Letter from Lagos and More #GreatReads

Submitted by admin on 20 August 2013

 

Teju Cole writes for the New Yorker's Page Turner blog about visiting Wole Soyinka and Soyinka's role in Nigerian politics (as well as reviewing a recent production of the play The Trials of Brother Jero at Terra Kulture)
A review of A. Igoni Barrett's short story collection Love is Power or Something Like That 
A 1944 letter by George Orwell reveals why he wrote 1984 (one of ZODML's Must Read Books)
What kind of genius are you: "quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet"?
Nigerian-American author Chinelo Okparanta (who was shortlisted for this year's Caine Prize) speaks with NPR about her work

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