And so when I began to go on evening walks last fall, I found Morningside Heights an easy place from which to set out into the city. - Teju Cole

Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless, vaguely fascistic air common to all capitals cities of the world…

the next Edward Said! I was going to do it by studying comparative literature and using it as a basis for societal critique.

thousands of cars over the course of a day would pay toll at the informal rate, lining the pockets of the collectors and their superiors