In the last essay in her trilogy about reading Turkish novels in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim writes about the uncanny persistence of cultural stereotypes in Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, and the simultaneously predictable and unpredictable experience of travel in a foreign city.
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For and Against Interpretation: Reading A.S. Byatt
“These protagonists (some, not all) end up throwing over a form of knowing characterized by skepticism in favor of an inchoate and yet much more real sense of what is true and meaningful—perhaps the very sense that experiences and words can be true and meaningful.”
In the second essay of her travelogue trilogy about reading Turkish novels in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim discovers black magic and cultural collision in Letife Tekin’s DEAR SHAMELESS DEATH.
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Each month we feature a young critic we admire and ask them a series of questions about their work and their perspectives on writing today.
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Two coming-of-age novels take us to the middle of nowhere.
The (Re)birth of the Author: derek beaulieu’s Experimental Poetics
beaulieu’s recent work, which encompasses visual poetry, graphic “translations” of other literary works, and conceptual or process-based prose, hardly presents a unified front. It is, however, bound together by its persistence in forcing the use of scare quotes around the word “writing”, in imagining alternative ways of creating and reading literature.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.