The White Savior Industrial Complex – Teju Cole – International – The Atlantic

Those tweets, though unpremeditated, were intentional in their irony and seriousness. I did not write them to score cheap points, much less to hurt anyone’s feelings. I believed that a certain kind of language is too infrequently seen in our public discourse. I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn’t have a point.
via The White Savior Industrial Complex – Teju Cole – International – The Atlantic.

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