We Are More: The Docent and the Novelist
I’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
...moreI’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
...moreHow does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
...moreBut still: A pattern. The trauma had been diluted by time. But, it was still present, still discernible, in my blood.
...moreIn his monthly series “The Lives of Others” over at the Paris Review, Edward White introduces us to globe-trotting Turkish writer, Evliya Çelebi, and the esoteric but lively book of travel stories he penned almost four centuries ago: Evliya so adored the bustling energy of Istanbul that he dedicated the first volume of the Seyahatname to […]
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