In the rush of news from Taksim Square and Gezi Park, a few writers have come forward to share their experiences on the ground. The story is ongoing, but here… Read more »

Turkey is the London Book Fair’s focus country this week, and the wheels of media are correspondingly turning, with a “blagger’s guide to Turkish literature” in the Independent (“blagger” presumably means… Read more »

A quick-and-dirty entirely individual mental rummaging through the titles and names indicates that things are looking good… Read more »

There is a hotel in Spain that is designed around Italo Calvino’s celebrated Invisible Cities, which sounds remarkably appealing so long as one of the themed rooms is not in… Read more »