Nazlı Gürlek Hodder
Furkan G. "In the Body" by Nazlı Gürlek Hodder
Furkan G. is 11 years old and lives in Kurtuluş, a mixed neighborhood in Istanbul traditionally home to Greek and Armenian Christian...
FICTIVE
Search
Serra Şensoy
- Jan 3, 2021
- 2 min
Surf by Serra Şensoy
SURF - A VISUAL POEM (BOOK AND MOVIE) Surf is a phonetic reflection on the identity crisis of alienation from reality after the switch...
Luke Frostick
- Dec 27, 2020
- 4 min
Perihan The Girl Without a Mouth, critiqued by Luke Frostick
Perihan The Girl Without a Mouth is a strange and beautiful comic written by artist and scriptwriter Cem Özüduru. This graphic novel...
Hana Korneti
- Dec 20, 2020
- 8 min
Istanbul, and the Early Signs You Should Get a Divorce by Hana Korneti
Opi is now nearing her 83rd birthday. She wasn’t always 82. I remember her 70s and 60s, and I have heard a great deal about the preceding...
Fictive Mag
- Dec 15, 2020
- 22 min
Art Photographer MAKHism on queer refugee life from Iran to Turkey
MAKHism is a queer art photographer from Iran. At 31, he gained official refugee status from the UNHCR in Ankara in 2015, the year he...
Melissa Ugolini
- Dec 6, 2020
- 12 min
A Touch in the Dark: Movement Archives from Iran
WHERE I woke at 6:30 in the morning with a heavy heart, and a tired mind. An intense year had passed. My whole life had turned upside...
Fictive Mag
- Nov 29, 2020
- 15 min
Political Scientist V. Probkin on Media in Russian, Turkish, English
Vasiliy Probkin, a trilingual polyglot reader on Russian, Turkish, and English media Vasiliy Probkin is a political scientist in Ankara....
Larissa Araz
- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
Dear Julia by Larissa Araz
Against the image of Gökçeada island, photographed wrapped in clouds by Larissa Araz, is a letter. Its author is fictional, a character...
Fictive Mag
- Nov 19, 2020
- 15 min
Renan Koen, "Positive Resistance"
Renan Koen is a Turkish-Jewish concert pianist, music therapist and public educator. Since the release of her 2015 album, “Holocaust...
Hana Korneti
- Nov 8, 2020
- 4 min
A Prowl in the Dead of Night by Hana Korneti
Book Review: A Prowl in the Dead of Night by Rüya Kızılay The Triumphant Return of Folklore “Does someone lurk in the shadows, or are the...
Fictive Mag
- Nov 1, 2020
- 8 min
The Traitor's Niche by Ihsan Effendi
It must have been a gust of hashish that wafted from a cracked glass hookah gourd as I tripped over a broken cobblestone on my daily...