Memed, My Hawk — A Novel from Turkey
What a wonderful thing it is to travel to distant lands, and far-away times in the hands of a master …
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
I am one of those cautious travelers who would not dream of parachuting into a place without knowing something about …
I Fell From A Bike Today
I fell from a bike today, hard. At sixty eight, four feet seems not so far until whacked by gravity …
Judgment Day
I’m getting ready for my day of judgment approaching breath by breath. Preparing in the sunlight, fog or sleet, preparing …
Richard Howard Brings Mallarme For A Beer
The Center for the Art of Translation hosts a once a month Lit & Lunch series in a large artists’ …
Morning Bird Songs: Tomas Tranströmer
Tomas Transtromer, the recently Nobel Laureated poet from Sweden, writes luminescent gems, perhaps cut with different facets in Robert Bly’s …
Snow: A Novel from Turkey – Orhan Pamuk
Snow in Turkey? And for three days, non stop? Who from the lands outside the greater Middle East would imagine …
“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …
The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …
Talking Turkey: Two Films
I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …
A Separation: A Film From Iran
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …