Photo of Oklahoma City by Gerson Repreza / Unsplash.comA cliché about Oklahoma City and Oklahoma in the national imagination is that it is a place to be passed through. In stories of the Dust Bowl, Ok…
Literary Cities
Photo of the Wales Millennium Centre / Jonny Gios / Unsplash.comHear the seagulls? They carouse all over the city, cawing about the places they’ve been beyond Wales. That’s always the way of it in Car…
Perpetually Demolished, Perpetually Renewed by Dana Gioia Los Angeles is an impossible city to describe, even for natives. Make any assertion about the place, and the opposite will of…
We asked writers in Turkey two questions: What is the book, available in English, that best evokes Istanbul? What is a favorite Istanbul bookstore? Here are their answers. A City of…
