Turkey Under Western Eyes
"Turkish Awakening" attempts to move beyond an orientalist epistemology.
"Turkish Awakening" attempts to move beyond an orientalist epistemology.
That Sophie Hannah has managed to write a traditional Poirot novel is both the success and failure of this book.
Contributor Kaya Genç examines actor David Suchet's role as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.
Kaya Genç on Teju Cole
IN MARCH 2014, two weeks before mayoral elections, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) released a campaign ad on national television...
A tribute to David Stoliar, the sole survivor of the 1942 Struma disaster.
First-person plural is the least used fictional POV, but it is necessary for political action — and both are steeped in gossip.
Erich Auerbach’s life in Istanbul, after escaping the Nazis, and his greatest work, "Mimesis"
Being down and out is a universal, timeless story. Just ask George Orwell.
In this month's edition of "Around the World," Tom Gallagher examines Jeremy Scahill's book and just-released documentary film Dirty Wars: a...
The Museum of Innocence is 500 days old; the things in the shops around it are older.
Wearing the wrong hat could get you killed.