Turkey: April 23 Children’s Day Festival
The main street of Antalya, Turkey is flooded with children dressed in red and white, or in the case of …
Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Idle Years — A Short Novel from Turkey
Orhan Kemal would not be one of the widely known names of Turkish literature in the West, unlike his semi name-share, …
The Land of Rumi
We are in Cappadocia, the land of Rumi, central Turkey, after a week in Istanbul. The incredible “fairy towers” are …
Children: A Poem from Cahit Kulebi, Turkey
Prowling the bookstores on Iskitlal Street, Istanbul’s famous pedestrian walk-way, I came on a volume of poems in English Translation …
The Rage of the Vulture: Barry Unsworth in Turkey
Barry Unsworth, the English Booker Prize winning novelist has written many memorable books, perhaps best known being Sacred Hunger (1992), …
Deep Blue Sea: Dark and Cold
Sometimes stage plays make it to the movies very well, other times not. Terrence Rattigan’s 1952 play, of love and …