This year's favorite Teju Cole read has over 300 years of history.Strange Tales from the Pavilion of Idleness"Pu Songling's The Last Supper is a masterpiece: the stories it tells are brilliant, dark, funny, and terrifying. There's nothing I've read in a long time that can compare." comments the author, who recently visited Barcelona to present his latest book of essays, Black paper (Acantilado, 2025).