The IrIsh TImes

The fighter jets are breaking the dark sky into giant geometric pieces as if the air were a solid object. It’s July 15th, 2016; the night of the attempted coup in Turkey. I am piling pillows up against the trembling

This week’s PEN Atlas piece reports from the Tanpınar literary festival in Turkey. Journalist Ece Temelkuran gives her personal response to this year’s festival. As world politics becomes bloodier, commercial literature becomes increasingly depoliticized. People eat, pray, love, and think Tahrir