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How did a 1970s Turkish psych record become the most hunted sleeve in American crate-digging culture? From Nashville's Grammy stage to festival fields across the US, we unpack the improbable second life of Anatolian rock — and what its rise says about how America now hears the world.
Türk şiirinin en tartışmalı kalemi Nazım Hikmet, çeviriler sayesinde Amerikan üniversitelerinde ve genç şairlerin defterlerinde yeni bir hayat buluyor. Bu yazı, bir şiirin dil sınırlarını nasıl aştığını ve kültürel köprülerin kâğıttan nasıl örüldüğünü inceliyor.
From Nobel lectures in Stockholm to dog-eared paperbacks in Brooklyn book clubs, Turkish literature has staged a remarkable conquest of the American imagination. What does this love affair reveal about the stories American readers are now hungry for?
American writers have been writing about Istanbul for a century, with results ranging from luminous to wildly off-target. We read five essential titles — and consider how an Istanbullu might receive each one.