All posts filed under “Books & Literature

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

The Idiot

Iggy and Fyodor, meet your [Turkish] match! Joseph Flaherty examines Turkish-American writer Elif Batuman’s debut novel, The Idiot, as well as her other projects

Sait Fait Abasiyanik

Right Said Sait

Rakı days, rock and roll nights: Alex Dawe looks back on the life and times of the late Turkish writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and what the Turkish literati had to say about him

Sayed Kashua

Native

Sarah Aziza chats with acclaimed Hebrew-language author Sayed Kashua about the Arab-Israeli experience and his latest book, Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

Fahmida Riaz

Face-Off

Aysha Khan examines the effacement of the female voice in the literary traditions of the Persianate world, from the days of the Mughals to the present