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At the end of the block in David Robert Mitchell’s 'The End of Oak Street,” is a cul-de-sac with a telephone pole in the middle and wires radiating out like the cables of a big top...
Annemarie Jacir’s film 'Palestine 36' was released in 2025 but I only just got the chance to see it this summer on a rerelease in my local cinema in Afyonkarahisar. One striking ov...
Every adaptation of the 'Odyssey' is a negotiation between antiquity and the present, and in Christopher Nolan's version the Greek past is dramatized to mirror the American pr...
History is often told through the stories of wars, treaties and rulers. Yet the true life of a society lies within its homes, streets, celebrations, ways of raising children, every...
Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Helen in the newly released film 'The Odyssey,' has praised the director Christopher Nolan for what she calls “his vision.” The casting of the Kenyan-Mexi...
Every generation of artists inherits not only an artistic tradition but also a geography of aspiration. Certain cities cease to function merely as places on a map and instead becom...
A. Ali Ural’s “Introduction to Writing” (“Yazarlığa Giriş”) is not merely a technical guide answering the question “how does one write?” Rather, it is a profound work of thought th...
One of the oldest tropes in settler colonial discourse is that the natives 'breed' in unnaturally high numbers, without a care for how they will feed and clothe these newborns, wit...
The most defining characteristic of the modern age is that humanity has changed not only the world it inhabits, but also the way it perceives itself. In a time when technology surr...
One of the many things that did not make sense to me growing up watching American films was the truth-or-dare game that seemed to be a requirement in every script. Surely, I though...
