Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief takes its title from a Yoruba proverb: ‘Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner’. It is a sly commentary on this narrative experience of a young Nigerian – a psychiatry student in New York – who returns home to Lagos for…
In Open City, Teju Cole’s main character, Julius, visits an exhibition of work by John Brewster. One image in particular catches his attention, a painting of a child holding a bird on the end of a blue thread. He notes the striking use of colour in the painting and muses that The bird represents the…
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