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When news of the Astroworld disaster came, I had just finished Bill Buford's "Among the Thugs", an enthralling book detailing the mobs of...

Night Hunger is a collection of short stories full of dread, anger, horror, macabre, torture and endless toxic nightmare fuel. It deals...

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...

The following texts and their accompanying artworks are excerpted from the illustrated book, "Tell Me Your Story", featuring a prologue...

I - Traditional, Acoustic, Folkloric There was a pale light that fell onto the waving Bosphorus strait, as the sun’s last rays peaked...

An open-air cinema enlivens the Cypriot no-man’s land On the unusually cool night of Friday, September 10th, people gathered around the...

“Olé, my Francisco! Give us another one!” I cried, as my cousin Francisco finished the fandanguito he had been singing with a drawn out...

The work contains a selection of tweets which were sent by Kanye West between 2012-2017 and focuses particularly on the subjects such as...

Introduction The rumble of concrete breaking under the claws of mammoth machines could be heard from the guarded entrance into a bare,...

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...

Ibn 'Arabi and Poststructuralism The range of Ibn ‘Arabi’s writings reveals the limits of verbal representation as a means to rational...

The following is an excerpt from "Positive Resistance" (2021, Gözlem Press) by Renan Koen, translated from the Turkish by Sibel İpeker,...

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...

I was reading, and stumbled across this story of a legendary Gloucester fisherman in Massachusetts: In 1883, Howard Blackburn and his...

Introduction The painter was at home, and she sounded up, sunny and quick to reveal her origins from Cambridge, Massachusetts, joking...

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...

It is Sunday afternoon in April, another late winter day in Calgary, Alberta, as sporadic snowfall lights on the sprawling residential...

Spoken Word Istanbul, in pre-pandemic times, offered a unique opportunity to a rich variety of performers on stage. We encouraged and...

Energy flow is crucial, now more than ever. My explorations of sound and logos have led to potent ideas and oscillations. I interpret the...

stream-of-consciousness writing has been integral to the process and art of literary work as a principle of modernism, and arguably...