Çağlı’s poems, which travel across magical seas and through centuries, ultimately preserve a kind of mystery.
1 MAY 2026 • By Leyla Çağlı
In this short story translated from Greek, a ferry ride across the Bosphorus becomes a reckoning with a...
1 MAY 2026 • By Nektaria Anastasiadou
James Baldwin's Turkish exile, a lesser-told chapter in his life, offered safety, privacy, and most importantly, a creative...
19 DECEMBER 2025 • By Öykü Tekten
Amidst a society in turmoil, and the city's mayor in jail, the 18th Istanbul Biennial resonates with the...
14 NOVEMBER 2025 • By Nat Muller
Fourteen million people have been displaced from Sudan due to the war, finding joy in life between the...
5 SEPTEMBER 2025 • By Re'al Bakhit
Defying a pervasive climate of self-censorship in Turkey, Kurdish artist Ateş Alpar grapples with cultural assimilation, historical erasure...
27 JUNE 2025 • By Jennifer Hattam
Djinns emerge in a fractured home in Istanbul, reflecting the intercultural and intergenerational tensions in Fatma Aydemir’s family...
9 MAY 2025 • By Elena Pare
The Turkish government has reintegrated Ahlat into the national narrative, but its history is more complex than acknowledged.
29 NOVEMBER 2024 • By William Gourlay
Amy Omar speaks to Ayşegül Savaş about her third novel, cinema and capturing the transitory phases of life.
26 JULY 2024 • By Amy Omar
Arie Amaya-Akkermans on a book that reviews not only Turkey’s social and political deterioration over the last decade,...
28 JUNE 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world...
7 JUNE 2024 • By William Gourlay
Regarded internationally as one of Turkey’s greatest writers, Oğuz Atay (1934-1977) remains largely untranslated into English.
3 MAY 2024 • By Ralph Hubbell
