“I can read racists, misogynists, Soviets, American capitalists, because when an artist is good . . . there is going to be something that is nurturing there. When I am picking up the book, I just want great art.”
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Teju Cole: ‘Fiction has to touch on your bruises’
The Nigerian-American writer on the genesis of his new novel, history’s riches and the US’s ‘film of filth’