The Best European Fiction

The Best European Fiction is an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. It is edited by the renowned Bosnian author and MacArthur “Genius-Award” winner Aleksander Hemon. This year, a chapter from The Theory of Infirmity by Ersan Üldes, one of the contributors of Turkish Book Review is...

Contents – No: 4

NOVEL Ersan Üldes – A Distinctive Kind of Literature from Barış Bıçakçı 8 Emma Foulger – Stay Behind, Stay Crazy 14 Deniz Vural – A Dream within a Dream 17 Senem Tüfekcioğlu – A Mafia of Brotherhood 19 MASTERS OF TURKISH LITERATURE George Messo – Mapping the...

The ‘Sublime Porte’ of Publishing

The centre of government for the Ottoman State was for centuries called Babiali – the Sublime Porte. It became the name of the surrounding historical area covering landmarks such as Saint Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace and also the modern governmental buildings of the late 19th century. The...