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Dreaming in Ottoman: Istanbul at a Crossroads

TEATIME IN ISTANBUL IS NOT OFTEN a Proustian moment. It is hardly Proustian at all, in fact. But in the palatial home of Serdar Gülgün in Cengelköy, on the Asian side of the Bosphorus,…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2977 words)
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High Weirdness By Mail

"I guess it started for me when, as a young sci-fi movie fan, I did a fanzine at age 12 to 15... that’s when I learned how relatively cheap and easy it was to self-publish, at least for a…
LENGTH: 45 minutes (11303 words)

Constructing the Self, Constructing the Other

Last year marked the 50th Anniversary German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement, when Turkish guest-workers began to arrive in Germany, and this was celebrated with big fanfare by Turkish and German…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1796 words)

How Jamaica conquered the world

Usain Bolt leads his delegation during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games in the Olympic Stadium. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images A few months ago the disc jockey and…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3170 words)

In the Shadow of Wounded Knee

Almost every historical atrocity has a geographically symbolic core, a place whose name conjures up the trauma of a whole people: Auschwitz, Robben Island, Nanjing. For the Oglala Lakota of the Pine…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4052 words)

After America

In the eleven years since the American invasion of Afghanistan, Abdul Nasir has become a modern and prosperous professional. A worldly man in his late thirties, he smokes Marlboros, drives a Toyota,…
PUBLISHED: July 9, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (989 words)

Shakespeare’s England: Stratford journeys #1

Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Stratford upon Avon I’m outside the As You Like It café on Henley Street in Stratford, two doors up from the entrance to Shakespeare’s birthplace,…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2882 words)

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Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield

By Claudia De La Roca Claudia de la Roca: So take us back to the Simpsons’ foundational moment. In 1987 you were waiting for a meeting with James Brooks and you started sketching. What were…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (767 words)
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