Snow: A Novel from Turkey – Orhan Pamuk
Snow in Turkey? And for three days, non stop? Who from the lands outside the greater Middle East would imagine …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
“It’s Time,” a Poem by Zhu Yufu, Gets Him Seven Years
It’s time, people of China! It’s time. The Square belongs to everyone. With your own two feet It’s time to …
The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution
If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …
Talking Turkey: Two Films
I admit it. I’ve been on a bender lately reading about Turkey and watching movies made there, or by Turks …
A Separation: A Film From Iran
A Separation, from Iran, is the most intense, informative, though claustrophobic, domestic drama you are likely to see in years. …
Dreamers — Siegfried Sassoon
I’ve been reading Pat Barker’s well thought of trilogy, Regeneration [Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road] about …
Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …
“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade, …
Heron God
I wondered as I watched the Great Blue Heron fishing if he had a god , and if so …
Translation: Dancers at the Wedding
One of the books I received for holiday good wishes was David Bellos’ “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?“, …
Distant – a Film from Turkey
I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …
Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …