PHARMAKON

200pp., 4to,., colour illus., paperback, MACK, (London), 2024

ISBN: 9781915743398

A sequence of photographs taken around the world, interspersed with twelve compact short stories.

"... the images, like the pages of a visual diary, follow and bear witness to his various journeys and wanderings around the world. Once again the sequence intertwines the photographs with a dozen stories, almost small parables or prophecies." Doppiozero 

Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of the novels Open City and Tremor, the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, the collection of essays Known and Strange Things, the photobook Blind Spot, and Human Archipelago, the text-image collaboration with Fazal Sheikh. He has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the New York City Book Award, and the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction. His photography has been widely exhibited, and he was the Photography Critic of The New York Times Magazine. He is Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard University and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.