reviews

Book review about John Freely’s posthumously published Stamboul Ghosts: A stroll through bohemian Istanbul, the third memoir in the travel writer’s series on his years in Turkey in the 1960s.

Published in The Times Literary Supplement. Read it here.

Review of Maria Iordanidou’s popular novel, translated into English from Greek for the first time by Denise Harvey. Loxandra depicts life at the turn at the century for Istanbul’s Greeks in the late Ottoman Empire with the larger-than-life titular character.

Published in The Times Literary Supplement. Read it here.

Review of İSTANBUL İSTANBUL by Burhan Sönmez and translated by Ümit Hussein from Turkish to English. The multi-narrator, multi-story within story novel tells the story of the city through four prisoners.

Originally published in the Ploughshares blog. Read it here.

A double review of the late 19th century travelogue, Constantinople by Italian novelist and journalist Edmondo De Amicis, and the Akashic Noir Series collection, Istanbul Noir, translated and edited by Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler.

Originally published in Time Out Istanbul. Read it here.