For publishers, there are certain dates that can either cause terrible anxiety or tremendous excitement. When a world is opened up, or a secret kingdom closed down. When you reign… Read more »

Where have we heard this before? Judgment on an obscenity trial was postponed yesterday in Turkey, which has seen a series of these trials over the past few years for… Read more »

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 »

To an outsider, the current unrest in Turkey, which began as a protest against the decimation of Gezi Park, one of Istanbul’s last public green spaces, seems to have many echoes… Read more »

“To Chop Down the Plane Tree” by Nazim Hikmet To chop down the plane tree, their axe strikes at the root, to set fire to the house they stuff oily… 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 »

Right now you may be facing down the vast expanse of a leftover Thanksgiving turkey, or perhaps just the remnants dotted here and there throughout the refrigerator. Regardless of the… Read more »

There’s disturbing news from Turkey this month, as Sara Whyatt, Deputy Director of PEN International, reports from the obscenity case pending against the publishers of William Burroughs and Chuck Palahniuk,… Read more »