Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson

December 1, 2023

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Photograph by Donavon Smallwood for The New Yorker

Teju Cole joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “1=1,” by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole’s novels include “Open City” and “Tremor,” which was published this year.

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