Teju Cole
OPEN SOURCE: History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Length: 00:58:59
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solitary walker through present-day Manhattan, where living histories saturate the streets with the "ominous energies" of inherited injustice. Then, the silver-tongued Columbia historian Simon Schama reflects on the global empire we seem to have inherited from his other country, Britain.
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