April 14, 2018 – Artforum – Isle
April 2, 2018 – The New York Times – Who is a Turk? It’s Complicated
December 4-11, 2017 – The Nation – Fathers and Sons
November 9-22, 2017 – The New York Review of Books – A Very American Endeavor
October 31, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – A Refuge in Uncertain Times
August 29, 2017 – The London Review of Books – On the Sleeper
August 24, 2017 – Aperture – Elements of Style: On Olgaç Bozalp
July 31, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – At Santa Maddalena
July 15, 2017 – VICE – One year later
June 20, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – The pleasures of the glimpse: on Dirk Braeckman at the Venice Biennale
June 1, 2017 – Index on Censorship – Frenemies: a story
June 1, 2017 – New Humanist– The dispossessed
April 16, 2017 – VICE – Istanbul on the edge
April 7, 2017 – The Times Literary Supplement – Gothic Sherlock (cover story)
March 21, 2017 – The Believer – Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Contemporary Art
March 18, 2017 – The WorldPost – The Turkey-Netherlands Spat Is A Reminder Of A New Specter Haunting Europe
February 10, 2017 – Aperture – Dispatch from Istanbul
January 20, 2017 – Sight and Sound – Turkey’s Greatest Cinephile?
January 11, 2017 – The WorldPost – Under a Blanket of Snow, Istanbul Finally Breathes
January 7, 2017 – New Republic – Walking Dully Along
January 1, 2017 – The New York Times – First Darkness, Then Terror
December 21, 2016 – VICE – Syria’s astronaut refugee
December 20, 2016 – The New Statesman – The Russian ambassador’s killing will only strengthen Turkey-Russia relations
December 12, 2016 – The New Statesman – An attack on Istanbul’s warm heart
December 2, 2016 – The WorldPost – Uncertainty in Post-Coup Turkey Is Refueling Istanbul’s Art Scene
November 25, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – Blank spaces on the map
October 26, 2016 – The Millions – Our Great Contrarian
October 24, 2016 – The Believer – A Young Turk in Love
October 20, 2016 – The WorldPost – After the Failed Coup, Many Young Turks Are Yearning For Independence
August 27, 2016 – London Review Bookshop – Angry Young Turkey: on Turkey’s frustrations
August 9, 2016 – The National – Mark Rothko, the flag and Turkey’s red future
July 20, 2016 – The WorldPost – A Night Out With Turkey’s Anti-Coup Protesters
July 18, 2016 – Pacific Standard– When American Radicals Take Over the Berlin Bienniale
July 16, 2016 – The New York Times – A Night at the Coup
July 15, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – Wilde the child
July 1, 2016 – The WorldPost – Once the Capital of Nostalgia, Istanbul Is Now the Capital of Anxiety and Neurosis
June 30, 2016 – Pacific Standard– The Mood in Istanbul
June 15, 2016 – Guernica – The White Center
June 3, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – ‘Please don’t leave us alone’: ‘A TLS symposium with leading figures in academia, literature and the humanities’
May 26, 2016 – The WorldPost – Turkey is About to Change
May 10, 2016 – The Millions – Here’s to the Cowardly Ones: On Dmitri Shostakovich and Emotional Rebellion
May 2, 2016 – The WorldPost – In Turkey, Secularism Is Much More Than a Word
April 13, 2016 – New Republic– Springtime in Istanbul
April 7, 2016 – Los Angeles Review of Books – On the “demonic energy & radiance” of “Mustang”
April 1, 2016 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2016 Issue) – When the Dream upset the regime
March 28, 2016 – Pacific Standard – An American in Istanbul: Molly Crabapple on Art and Activism
March 18, 2016 – Newsweek – Turkey’s Deal with the EU Could Destroy Its Flourishing Refugee Community
March 16, 2016 – London Review of Books blog – The Case of Fadi Mansour
March 11, 2016 – Index on Censorship – On “coup plots”, journalism trials and Turkey’s need for a proper dissensus
February 15, 2016 – Guernica – Istanbul’s Wandering Songbirds
January 28, 2016 – Sight & Sound – 10 great films set in Istanbul
January 16, 2016 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkish Contemporary Art 2.0
January 12, 2016 – The WorldPost – Istanbul Has Always Been a City of Fires and Earthquakes. Today, It Was a City of Terror.
December 21, 2015 – London Review of Books blog – Finneganın Vahı
December 17, 2015 – New Republic – The Graphic Memoir Comes to Turkey
December 11, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – The Return of the Repressed
December 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2015 Issue) – Not just hot air
December 1, 2015 – The WorldPost – Syria Should Not Cost Turkey Its Peace With the Kurds
November 16, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Imagining the “Other”
November 9, 2015 – The Believer – A Novel Without a Head
November 2, 2015 – New Republic – Why Turkey Stuck With Erdogan
November 2, 2015 – Pacific Standard – In Search of Istanbul’s Ghost Malls
September 29, 2015 – Al Jazeera English – Poverty in Orhan Pamuk’s Turkey
September 21, 2015 – The Believer – A Call for Peace
September 18, 2015 – Pacific Standard – The Istanbul Biennial: Orhan Pamuk and the Mysteries of Water
September 13, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey Under Western Eyes
September 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2015 Issue) – In the Court of Purity
July 31, 2015 – Pacific Standard – How Turkey’s War on ISIS Is Imperiling a Kurdish Peace
July 19, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Murder Mysteries After the Death of the Author
July 13, 2015 – Pacific Standard – Riding an UberBOAT Across the Bosphorous
July 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2015 Issue) – Silence on Campus
June 11, 2015 – Little Atoms – Welcome to Turkey’s Desert of the Real
June 8, 2015 – Time – Turkish Voters Have Punished the Ruling Party for Bullying Minorities
June 5, 2015 – Prospect – Could this party change Turkey’s political landscape?
April 19, 2015 – Sight & Sound – One Step Back
April 6, 2015 – The Guardian – Turkey’s social media ban is a hark back to the old bureaucracy
March 18, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2015 Issue) – The state v the poets
February 27, 2015 – London Review of Books blog – Turkish versions of ‘The Little Prince’
January 12, 2015 – The Believer – A Turkish Hero of Our Time
January 12, 2015 – Full Stop – Diary of the Fall
December 11, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2014 Issue) – A climate of intimidation
November 26, 2014 – Guernica – Windows in the House of History
November 25, 2014 – The Believer – Kaya Genç on Avi Steinberg on The Book of Mormon
November 10, 2014 – New Humanist – (Winter 2014 Issue) – In Search of the ‘New Turkey’
October 24, 2014 – The Believer – Art in the Office
October 23, 2014 – Guernica – The Keys to the Kingdom
October 23, 2014 – The Rumpus – The Children Act
October 21, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Forbidden Fruit
October 5, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Hercule Poirot and Us
September 15, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2014 Issue) – Political Framing
August 21, 2014 – London Review of Books – Turkey’s New Left
August 14, 2014 – The Believer – Winter sleep of emotions
August 8, 2014 – Guernica – Turkey’s Unofficial Referandum
August 7, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Crossing the Border of Fiction
July 12, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Sacred and its Discontents
July 12, 2014 – The Guardian – An appreciation of Andrew Mango
June 19, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Surviving the Black Sea
June 12, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2014 Issue) – Ghost of Turkey’s Past
June 12, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2014 Issue) – When one door closes
June 1, 2014 – The Believer (June 2014 Issue) – The Beginning of Anger Is Beautiful
May 22, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Old Injustices
May 22, 2014 – London Review of Books blog – Soma and the Subcontractor System
May 1, 2014 – PEN Atlas – The Greatest Turkish Novel?
April 30, 2014 – The Believer – The name behind the crater
April 30, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Bridges in time
April 9, 2014 – Paris Review Daily – Infinite Reality
April 7, 2014 – The Believer – Life without Twitter was great for the first few hours
April 1, 2014 – Fiction Advocate – How Should an Author Be
March 29, 2014 – London Review of Books blog – Istanbul Votes
March 12, 2014 –- Index on Censorship (Spring Issue) –- Turkey’s Twitter Army
March 12, 2014 – Guernica – The Self-Inventions of Modernity
March 5, 2014 – Courrier International – La nation arc-en-ciel
March 1, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Embassy of Gossip: Zadie Smith’s First-Person Plural
February 18, 2014 – Rumpus – The Daylight Gate
January 13, 2014 – BÜLENT: Journal of Contemporary Turkey – A squat toilet! Who can still disapprove of it?
January 12, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Auerbach in Istanbul
January 8, 2014 – Paris Review Daily – Divine Wisdom
January 2, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Such, Such Were the Miseries: Down and Out in Paris and London and Istanbul
December 19, 2013 – PEN Atlas – Living by the pen
December 19, 2013 – Full Stop – The Circle
December 17, 2013 – The Guardian – Apollinaire publisher on trial in Turkey
December 10, 2013 – PANK – The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
December 10, 2013 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2013-2014 issue) – Pressure points
December 10, 2013 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2013-2014 issue) – Turkey’s Alternative Media
December 8, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Friends of the Museum
November 25, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – Bricklayer, Waiter, Gravedigger, Spy
November 11, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution
November 4, 2013 – Paris Review Daily – It Was the Best of Titles, It Was the Worst of Titles
November 4, 2013 – Guernica – The political color wheel
October 1, 2013 – The Guardian – Good riddance, Turkish school oath – but reforms don’t go far enough
September 24, 2013 – The Millions – The Heart of My Life, the Life of My Heart
September 19, 2013 – Rumpus – From the Ruins of Empire
September 19, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – Turkey’s second oldest paper
September 3, 2013 – White Review – Outside the Uniform
September 3, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Ali Kemal: Martyred Journalist and Iconic Traitor
August 23, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – At Robinson Crusoe 389
August 20, 2013 – Paris Review Daily – Take a Shot Now
August 12, 2013 – Salon – Ebooks v. Cigarettes
August 10, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Ebooks v. Lattes
August 1, 2013 – PEN Atlas – Our man in Berkhamsted
July 25, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – In the Sea of Marmara
July 15, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey Is Just a Thread That Ties All These Interesting Ideas Together
July 12, 2013 – The Millions – My Little Library in Anatolia
June 28, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Listening to Vampire Weekend in Istanbul
June 20, 2013 – The Guardian (June 22, 2013 – The Guardian Review) – A latterday Bartleby
June 12, 2013 – The PEN Atlas – The Walnut Tree
June 11, 2013 – Sight & Sound – Visions of Istanbul
June 3, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – In Gezi Park
May 8, 2013 (June 2013 issue) – Sight & Sound – Let Battle Commence
May 1, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – Versions of Omar Khayyám
May 1, 2013 – Little Brother Magazine – But They Fuck You Up
April 14, 2013 – Financial Times – Letter from Istanbul
April 4, 2013 – PEN Atlas – What is Official? Turkish writing, from state discourse to civil literature
February 26, 2013 – London Review of Books blog – Thirty Years of İletişim
February 23, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra
February 8, 2013 (March 2013 issue) – Sight & Sound – The legacy of Seyfi Teoman
February 8, 2013 – Index / UNCUT – Number of “insulting Turkishness” cases drops as parliament discusses changing definition of citizenship
February 1, 2013 – Index / UNCUT – Why was this Turkish sociologist given a life sentence?
January 12, 2013 – The Guardian / Guardian Review – Parents please leave Holden alone
January 11, 2013 – Index on Censorship – The trouble with Taraf
December 24, 2012 – Index / UNCUT – How comic Captain Miki offended the Turkish state
December 7, 2012 – Index / UNCUT – The Magnificent Century
November 28, 2012 – Guernica – Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth
November 27, 2012 – PANK – Ancient Light
November 23, 2012 – HTMLGIANT – Living to tell the tale
November 20, 2012 – Rumpus – Lionel Asbo: State of England
November 5, 2012 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Plebs and Chavs: On Textual Representation of Class
October 1, 2012 – Specter – A Farewell to the Eye
August 24, 2012 – The New Inquiry – Coming Out of the Coffin
August 12, 2012 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Wilde in the Office
July 18, 2012 – London Review of Books blog – Remember the Umbrella Makers
July 3, 2012 – Index on Censorship – Index award winner faces jail
June 14, 2012 – The Millions – Mario Vargas Llosa and the Heart of Roger Casement
June 4, 2012 – Guernica – Our Grand Young Filmmaker
April 29, 2012 – Squawk Back / “Franzen delenda est” issue – The Judas Kiss
April 21, 2012 – The Guardian / The Guardian Review – Pamuk opens his museum
April 12, 2012 – London Review of Books website – Anglobalisation
March, 2012 – Index on Censorship: 40th Anniversary Issue – Shadow of dissent: Voices of the Brave
March, 2012 – Guide Istanbul Magazine – Private practice
February 8, 2012 – Guernica Magazine – Conrad’s First Novel & His Personal Record
January 9, 2012 – The Millions – Orhan Pamuk’s Unlikely New Role
December 22, 2011 – Index on Censorship – Turkish crackdown on Kurdish journalists
December 8, 2011 – London Review of Books – Publish and be jailed
December 4, 2011 – The Guardian Weekly – Turkish coffee and frank talk
November 24, 2011 – The Guardian – Turkish coffee house talk could teach the world a thing or two
November, 2011 – Common Ground News Service (November 15), Daily News Egypt (November 17), Khaleej Times (November 19), The Daily Star (November 21), The Bali Times (November 18-24) – Stalemate in Turkey’s Kurdish question demands brave new moves
October 2011 – Index on Censorship: The Art Issue – Sketches of Dissent: Challenging the Status Quo in Turkey
August 31, 2011 – The Guardian – Turkey’s Kurds must push for a democratic answer
July 2011 – Index on Censorship – Dink’s murderer sentenced to 22 years
June 11, 2011 – The Guardian / The Guardian Review – Palahniuk and Burroughs, Turkish state’s new ‘suspect authors’
March 2011 – Index on Censorship – Arrest of Turkish reporters raises doubts over Ergenekon case
February 5, 2011 – The Guardian / The Guardian Review – Speak of the Devil
2011 – 1st International Akşit Göktürk Conference: “Visions of the Future Now and Then in Literatures in English”: Book of Proceedings published by İstanbul University – Two journeys on the River Thames
October 2010 – Songlines – The wound within
September 2010 – Index on Censorship – Hrant Dink: A Misinterpreted Peacemaker
September 2010 – Index on Censorship: Smashed Hits Issue – Coffee-house blues
August 20, 2010 – Index on Censorship – Stranger than fiction