Alex Butler
Among the Thugs by Alex Butler
When news of the Astroworld disaster came, I had just finished Bill Buford's "Among the Thugs", an enthralling book detailing the mobs of...
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Cem Özüduru
Dec 26, 20211 min read
Night Hunger by Cem Özüduru
Night Hunger is a collection of short stories full of dread, anger, horror, macabre, torture and endless toxic nightmare fuel. It deals...
Augustino Lucano
Dec 12, 20216 min read
Peace Dialogue by Augustino Lucano
Journey to South Sudan on December 7, 2020 My journey to South Sudan in December 2020 was to mobilize the community to complete a feeder...
Itzik Rennert, Jennifer İpekel
Nov 28, 20212 min read
Daughters of the Sea by Itzik Rennert and Jennifer İpekel
The following texts and their accompanying artworks are excerpted from the illustrated book, "Tell Me Your Story", featuring a prologue...
Fictive Mag
Nov 14, 20215 min read
Sonic Spectrums by Gözde Kaya
I - Traditional, Acoustic, Folkloric There was a pale light that fell onto the waving Bosphorus strait, as the sun’s last rays peaked...
Eleni Papadopoulou
Oct 24, 20215 min read
No Man’s Cinema by Eleni Papadopoulou
An open-air cinema enlivens the Cypriot no-man’s land On the unusually cool night of Friday, September 10th, people gathered around the...
Tosh Hayashi
Oct 16, 20214 min read
At the Zambomba by Tosh Hayashi
“Olé, my Francisco! Give us another one!” I cried, as my cousin Francisco finished the fandanguito he had been singing with a drawn out...
Berkay Tuncay
Oct 9, 20213 min read
Cuneiform Tweets by Berkay Tuncay
The work contains a selection of tweets which were sent by Kanye West between 2012-2017 and focuses particularly on the subjects such as...
Fictive Mag
Oct 2, 202114 min read
Master of the Black Leaf: On the Art of Devran Mursaloglu by Aysun Bloom
Introduction The rumble of concrete breaking under the claws of mammoth machines could be heard from the guarded entrance into a bare,...
Cem Özüduru
Sep 26, 20217 min read
On the Move by Cem Özüduru
If Istanbul were a storyteller she would want to tell the story of Beyoğlu and it’s back-alleys…. The story of the long and ancient...
Fictive Mag
Sep 20, 20214 min read
The Mystic Lie by Dina Said
Ibn 'Arabi and Poststructuralism The range of Ibn ‘Arabi’s writings reveals the limits of verbal representation as a means to rational...
Renan Koen
Sep 12, 20214 min read
Creativity by Renan Koen
The following is an excerpt from "Positive Resistance" (2021, Gözlem Press) by Renan Koen, translated from the Turkish by Sibel İpeker,...
Fictive Mag
Sep 5, 20215 min read
Istanbul Was A Musical by Pierre English
I was there, before the winds changed, when a man could saunter down a cold, lonely alley under the shadow of a medieval tower and find...
Alex Butler
Aug 29, 20211 min read
At Sea by Alex Butler
I was reading, and stumbled across this story of a legendary Gloucester fisherman in Massachusetts: In 1883, Howard Blackburn and his...
Fictive Mag
Aug 22, 202118 min read
Her Inner Child: The Paintings of Ayse Wilson by Sibel Tomruk
Introduction The painter was at home, and she sounded up, sunny and quick to reveal her origins from Cambridge, Massachusetts, joking...
Sanaz Ghorbani
Aug 15, 20214 min read
No Dance Is Illegal by Sanaz Ghorbani
I started dancing ballet at age 20. I used to be an actress. After, I studied with a teacher named P. and then continued learning with...
Fictive Mag
Aug 8, 20215 min read
Greek Blues by Nikos Ioannis
It is Sunday afternoon in April, another late winter day in Calgary, Alberta, as sporadic snowfall lights on the sprawling residential...
Merve Pehlivan
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Words on Gender by Merve Pehlivan
Spoken Word Istanbul, in pre-pandemic times, offered a unique opportunity to a rich variety of performers on stage. We encouraged and...
Pullahs
Jul 18, 20211 min read
Traces by Pullahs
Energy flow is crucial, now more than ever. My explorations of sound and logos have led to potent ideas and oscillations. I interpret the...
Andrew Bell
Jul 12, 20213 min read
streams by Andrew Bell
stream-of-consciousness writing has been integral to the process and art of literary work as a principle of modernism, and arguably...
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