Consists of essays, some previously published in various journals and periodicals on art, literature, and politics. Titles include Black body, Poetry of the disregarded, A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon, A true picture of black skin, Google's Macchia, Home strange home, Bad laws, The White savior industrial complex, and Blind spot.

In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions. To look is to see only a fraction of what one is looking at. Even in the most vigilant eye, there is a blind spot. What is missing? When it comes to Teju Cole, the unexpected is not unfamiliar: He s an acclaimed novelist, an influential essayist, and an internationally...

"The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic...