Julian Lucas reviews “Tremor,” by Teju Cole, the author of “Open City.”
Cole’s work makes an art—and a necessary virtue—of close looking. Across his fiction, photography, and criticism, he combines forensic rigor with a flâneur’s faith in style and sensibility, aligning aestheticism and ethical vigilance. “Open City” , his début novel, won acclaim for its portrayal of post-9/11 New York, whose buried histories of violence and displacement resurface in the course of a medical student’s wanderings.
Julius, its cultured and evasive Nigerian narrator, takes refuge from stressful shifts as a fellow in psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital by wandering the streets. His mind is as restlessly crowded as his personal life is desolate; estranged from his mother, and recently separated from a girlfriend, he fills his free time with books, classical music, and people-watching.
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