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: Tanpinar & the Istanbul protests
Image Courtesy of Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press To launch BOOK CURRENTS, a series of posts that looks at current events through international literature, we asked one of our interns, Scott Beauchamp, to use one of our books to briefly reflect on some