Maureen Freely on translation, Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk in NYRB
Don't miss Archipelago translator Maureen Freely's beautiful essay "Seeing Istanbul Again" on the New York Review of Books' blog. Years later, when I was translating Orhan Pamuk’s memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, I would read his passage on childhood daydreaming
BOOK CURRENTS: The Turkish Soundscape
Archipelago’s Scott Beauchamp recently returned from Turkey and, continuing in the vein of his last post, offers insight into the Turkish literary landscape: You’re going to have to forgive me if I wax poetic about my recent trip to Istanbul. In