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Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada

Translated by Susan Bernofsky As soon as he entered the sleepers’ realm, the air around him grew sharply colder, with glittering silvery particles of light falling all around him. He watched the miniature flakes floating, they danced, liberated from gravity, yet still went on falling: falling ever farther until at last they alighted on the frozen earth and disappeared.

Commentary

Secularism and Religion: The Attempted Coup in Turkey

by Tayfun Kasapoglu

The power struggle between secularists and “Islamists” has marked the history of Turkish politics. In this struggle, the Turkish military has acted as the guardian of the state, staging coups and banning certain political parties and figures in order to protect the secular system of the country (Jung 2008).

Research

Unknown Unknowns: Poverty and Tuberculosis in Romania

by Jonathan Stillo This post is less about poverty at the individual, community, or even health-system level, and more about the things we miss when we fail to investigate contributing factors beyond those most visible.

Fiction

Of Darkness by Josefine Klougart

Translated by Martin Aitken We come no closer, only the opposite—we are moving away. Moving backwards, losing the pores of the woman’s skin, we lose the pores, the fair down of her upper lip that you discovered, the lines of her skin reminding you of some other age—youth, funnily enough, that couldn’t quite be placed.

Commentary

Political Landscape in Turkey: Suspicion Against the Hizmet Movement

by Mette Fallesen It is almost impossible to speak of Turkish politics without to some degree addressing the conspiracy theories regarding the inner workings of the state. By calling them conspiracy theories, I intend to draw attention to how they are formed and in what way they reflect on how the state is imagined.

Interviews

An Interview on “Specter of the Fraud” with Sarah French Brennan

Interviewed by Kayla Maiuri The PhD candidate explores the many tribulations minority asylum seekers face, and the narrow patterns and behaviors they must conform to in order to be granted safety.

Podcast

What is Europe?

Welcome to the EuropeNow Podcast. In this inaugural episode we try to answer the seemingly simple question: What is Europe? We'll take a look at the geographic, historical, and political definitions of Europe and see if any of them are satisfactory. We'll also take a look at the potential for the dream of a unified Europe and the threats to that dream.

Visual

Field Nodes, Iceland

By Sarita Zaleha Zaleha's creative research explores environmental agency and our emotional engagement with the environment.

Literary

Borrowed Like Grief by Haydar Ergülen

Translated by Derick Mattern Once poetry was like a faithful hound whenever I was sad he’d sense it and come comfort me