FICTIVE

The sculptor worried about his motorcycle. He brought it to an unfamiliar shop for repairs. Kemal Tufan sat in a loft above his studio in...

I don’t get along so great with dogs, not that I haven’t been able to get close to them – just that they are as unbearable as toddlers. I...

Han van Meegeren was a Dutch painter who became notorious for his near-authentic forgeries of the Old Masters and Renaissance-style oil...

Furkan G. is 11 years old and lives in Kurtuluş, a mixed neighborhood in Istanbul traditionally home to Greek and Armenian Christian...

SURF - A VISUAL POEM (BOOK AND MOVIE) Surf is a phonetic reflection on the identity crisis of alienation from reality after the switch...

Perihan The Girl Without a Mouth is a strange and beautiful comic written by artist and scriptwriter Cem Özüduru. This graphic novel...

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...

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...

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...

Vasiliy Probkin, a trilingual polyglot reader on Russian, Turkish, and English media Vasiliy Probkin is a political scientist in Ankara....

Against the image of Gökçeada island, photographed wrapped in clouds by Larissa Araz, is a letter. Its author is fictional, a character...

Renan Koen is a Turkish-Jewish concert pianist, music therapist and public educator. Since the release of her 2015 album, “Holocaust...

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...

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...