Nothing is about you I’m sure of nothing, and writing essays is one of the ways I sort through my doubts. Here are twelve, all published in 2012. Listing them now, I see that I have had persistent themes: cities, photography, how Africa is seen, and questions of literary influence. Thanks to the editors who made these pieces happen—especially those at the New Yorker, the New Inquiry, the Atlantic, and Granta—and to the readers who wandered with me into various modes of reportage, criticism and…
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