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The Requirement of Adequacy

Fiction by Emily Franklin

Maurice Chammah: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By Ann Neumann

In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair

Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Sait Faik Abasıyanık is known as a master of the short story, sometimes called the “Turkish Chekhov.” This is an excerpt from a previously untranslated 1951 novella, A Cloud in the Sky. The title refers to a Turkish expression meaning, essentially, "forget about it." It portrays the city as seen by a man from the Marmara island of Burgaz (Sait Faik’s home) as he wanders through Istanbul, unable to take his mind off a young Greek woman he visits in the slums. He sits in taverns, stands on street corners, his mind circling back to this woman. Other chapters describe a pimp, a fortune-teller, prostitutes drawing water from a neighborhood well, a cake shop where gamblers gather. “The Shrimpmonger’s House” describes the bedroom he rents from a poor Greek family to spend time with the woman.
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The Shrimpmonger’s House

By Sait Faik Abasıyanık, translated from the Turkish by Brad Fox June 12, 2017
There she is—my beloved. Still in the pullover they’d call a chemise, its color a sweet red they’d call cyclamen, and the voices around us would cut out.
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