Cinderella and the Chronology of a Girl's Life
I was five years old when I first watched Disney's Cinderella (1950), and it was one of the most magical moments of my life. The way that...
Başak Ünal
The Rat King's Crew
The truth is often filthy and likes hiding under the floorboards. “So, I was sittin in me chair, the pub’s filled to the brim with...
Batuhan Polat
In the Ogre's Garden, Leila Slimani
In her novel Dans le Jardin de l’Ogre ( In the Ogre’s Garden ), Leila Slimani portrays Adèle, an upper-middle-class bourgeois woman...
Ayda Duru Demirtaş
Inferno I: An Introduction to the Afterlife
The Map of Hell, Boticelli. The poem opens with the famous line: “Midway upon the journey of our life.” For centuries, literature has...
Ayda Duru Demirtaş
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide to the Afterlife
INTRODUCTION Dante’s Divine Comedy famously starts with the line “Midway upon the journey of our life”, the signature quote that we...
Ayda Duru Demirtaş
Revelation
In a land unknown, having walked for a thousand cities, I found myself walking through a forest filled with memories. Night fell down,...
Ayda Duru Demirtaş
ode to the media
images, images, images all around me are images is this all i’m created for? is this all that i’m made for? a spy, a gun, a fight, a...
Ayda Duru Demirtaş
Energy Vampires Anonymous
It was a typical Friday morning— 10 a.m. to be exact—in the city's Orthodox church. As usual, the room was prepared for one of the most...
Başak Ünal
Cravings
Day rises, night dies, No heavens have seen such bright stars. The day will pass but I pray for it to last Seeking and loving this...
Doğa Aslan
Obsession
Then we saw the view With eternal roads Thoughts eluded us like poor migrating birds. A venomous spell held our hands And whispered —...
Doğa Aslan