Photo by Zeynel AbidinTurkish writer Elif Shafak conquers the task of crossing both cultures and genders in her latest novel, The Architect’s Apprentice (London: Viking, 2014), in which…
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December 5, 2014
February 27, 2013“Istanbul’s fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.”Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk, tr. Maureen Freely After two Nordic stops, today…
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