Cole
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Books
Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world.
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Sports
A Rare Matchup of Aces Adds ‘Extra Buzz’ to Subway Series
Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander have dominated baseball for years, and were teammates in Houston. On Wednesday they will face each other for only the second time.
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Sports
A Subway Series Rich on Pitching but Missing Its Sluggers
Aaron Judge and Pete Alonso are both out, but even in a down year for the Mets (so far), two games against the Yankees provide heightened tension.
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Books
Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits the world of “Avatar.”
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World
For Black South Africans, Apartheid Was a ‘House of Bondage’
In a newly reissued photo book from 1967, Ernest Cole surveys the ever-present atrocities of European oppression.