Anthony Quinn
In Cacoyannis’s lens, Crete was not merely a setting. That barren plain, that coastline, that aged Greek village, all were externalizations of Zorba’s soul.
Cem Bahadır11 min read
Pandemic Literature: Against the Invisible Enemy
The roots of pandemic literature reach back to the plague-ridden hell of fourteenth-century Florence. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the Decameron (1353) in the very heart of that hell, or in its immediate aftermath.
Sebahattin Çelebi12 min read
Does a Man Kill What He Loves?
Dive into VR wonders, exploring realms where reality and imagination intertwine. Thrills await in the virtual universe.
Sebahattin Çelebi9 min read
Setting Sail for a New Horizon
For wood is a living material. It creaks, it flexes, it carries the memory of the water, and above all, it demands the touch of a master to take its shape. Our magazine sets out with this exact philosophy.
Sebahattin Çelebi2 min read
Beyond Continents
In the early 1970s, Neşet Ertaş faced what he would later call the hardest decision of his life. His daughter Döne was gravely ill, and the medical options available in Türkiye were limited.
Sebahattin Çelebi6 min read
The Floral Armchair
These had been the “dreams” Nesrin had nurtured before her parents’ separation. On the day she “saw her father standing there with a suitcase in his hand”, all those dreams “collapsed at once”. He said only: “Farewell”.
Aysel Yalçın5 min read
The Antidepressant Industry
The rapid rise in antidepressant use in recent years deserves to be treated not only as a health issue but as a social one.
Sabri Uçar Çalışkan6 min read
A Defeated Lover
Fikriye is presented merely as a relative, a helper. Yet Fikriye was Mustafa Kemal’s past. The lost gardens of Salonica, the innocent afternoons of childhood. She was not a woman for the Pasha, she was a climate.
Sebahattin Çelebi11 min read
In the Shadow of the Iron Cross
In the Age of Information, news media faces both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges.
Sebahattin Çelebi8 min read
The Greatest Poet: Nazım Hikmet
Nazım Hikmet, the greatest poet of modern Turkish lyric poetry, is, with the new language and new understanding he brought to the art of poetry, the greatest revolutionary of verse.
Mehmet Yıldız14 min read
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, anda Roman Italian
Cinema had barely been discovered before it got its hands on the cowboy film. For years, cowboys, who were in reality nothing more than cattle herders, were presented as flawless heroes, while the innocent and the oppressed, Native Americans above all, were cast without exception as the villains.A man came from Rome and, with just six films, changed the history of the American Western.
Hürrem Erman11 min read
Tolstoy’s Prayer Rug
Leo Tolstoy: “Please regard me as a good Muslim, and all will be well”.n fostering a sustainable future.
Hürrem Erman11 min read
Hope Is a Good Thing, Perhaps the Best of Things
These words belonged to a work of fiction. But the moment they fell from the lips of Morgan Freeman, not as a screen character, but as the human being who carries that voice, they took on an altogether different weight.
Cem Bahadır13 min read
The memory the Rubble
In the pitch dark she dragged her feet across the ground, feeling her way forward, trying to understand where it was she had come from.
Sümeyra Ağaoğlu3 min read
Jean Baudrillard
In the Age of Information, news media faces both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges.
Özlen Biçer8 min readLast Harbour · Issue 1
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Che’s Gaza
The Day a Revolution That Sought to Embrace the World Caught on the Grains of Sand
Sebahattin Çelebi8 min read
Cemile
The oral tradition roots of Kyrgyz literature were unmistakably present in Aitmatov’s prose. The work could be read as an epic poem. Events were arranged not in chronological but in emotional logic. Time was not linear but cyclical.
Sebahattin Çelebi7 min read
Virginia Woolf
She had seen her in a black-and-white photograph. Virginia sat thinking beside a window, in an armchair upholstered with patterned fabric, dressed in a garment of velvet-like cloth, a brooch at her collar whose exact shape she could not make out from the photograph, and a wide, long skirt cut from the same material.Again, reading the book in her hands, she noticed that her mind had drifted from the text, and she set it down on the coffee table in front of her.
Hatice Dikbaş8 min read
Growing Younger in Old Age
When a person shares their memories, they return, if only for a moment, to that young self: the one who ran, laughed, hoped. When an older person tells of their past, what enters their voice is not trembling, but strength.
Seval Tuncer7 min read