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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Autumn

September 14, 2020 Neriman K., PhD

To Longfellow, Fall means change, wisdom, an end and a beginning. A contradiction. Fall, he suggests, is a poignant reminder of our mortality. Continue reading Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Autumn

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It was not easy to write my post, “Dear Europe, I promise I’m Not Staying”— @_theapplicant’s Leyla helped me out in the process. My reflection on having a Turkish passport and one of the best books I’ve read this year, The Applicant, is up on RUOT (the link is on my profile as always and will be in my story) A few years ago (it’s been a decade already, I think), Kürk Mantolu Madonna (1943) by Sabahattin Ali became a bestseller in Turkey— following the publication of an updated edition. I wanted to read it badly then but was too busy dissertating. One of my goals for this year has been to read more poetry, and Yeats makes it quite easy. To all the strong, admirable women who “twist away from tradition”: happy international women’s day 🤍 I haven’t read in Turkish for such a long time. I went into the bookstore the other day and bought a collection of modern Turkish classics. I read these two masterpieces in English already, but what a privilege to read them in Turkish. Turkish writer Nazlı Koca's debut The Applicant is out today.

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