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Tanıl Bora
For June, we reached out to İletişim Publishing research and analysis series editor Tanıl Bora. He prepared the following reading list for young readers. It’s a difficult decision to choose books and when you have to choose only five… To pave the way for myself, I will choose five books from the publishing company I …
June’s Wrıtıngs Are Lıve!
As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every month. We translate these works, which are be made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of Turkey. June’s works are now live and can be found below. This, we hope, will create new audiences …
Kıds Across North Amerıca Colored Over 3,000 Frames to Illustrate an Anımated Musıc Vıdeo
JULY 10, 2019 LAURA STAUGAITIS An animated music video for Meg Myers’ cover of a Kate Bush song brings kid’s coloring books to life. Director Jo Roy first filmed Myers on a green screen, performing the crawling, climbing, and flying shown in the music video (see behind-the-scenes below). Then, each of the 3,202 frames was printed off as …
“Chıldren need art and storıes and poems and musıc as much as they need love and food and fresh aır and play.”
Wise words from Philip Pullman, who received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2005: Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play. If you don’t give a child food, the damage quickly becomes visible. If you don’t let a child have fresh air and play, …
Move Over Freud: Lıterary Fıctıon Is The Best Therapy
Fiction breaks down social isolation and creates a sense of belonging, argues the author and former psychoanalyst Books and bonds … Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer in the 1996 film adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady. Photograph: Allstar/Propoganda Films One of my maxims as a university teacher of literature was: “A great novel not …
May’s Wrıtıngs Are Lıve!
As İlkyaz, we work to introduce three young writers every month. We translate these works, which are be made up of a short stories or poems, into English and endeavour to introduce them to readers outside of Turkey. April’s works are now live and can be found below. This, we hope, will create new audiences …
The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
It’s not just bad storytellıng—ıt’s because the storytellıng style changed from socıologıcal to psychologıcal By Zeynep Tufekci on May 17, 2019 Game of Thrones, in its eighth and final season, is as big as television gets these days. More than 17 million people watched the season’s opening. Judging by the fan and critic reaction though, it seems that a substantial portion …