Fiction

What is a subway poem? I write subway poems from time to time. This poem is one of them. Do you want to know what a subway poem is? Let’s say the answer is yes. So here’s what a subway…

Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union.

Written by Eysan Demirkaya Edited by Melis Salihoglu

Written by Eysan Demirkaya Edited by Melis Salihoglu

Nathan Gauer, the author of Songs to Make the Desert Bear Fruit, has been writing a novel sets in Istanbul. This is a piece from it and he gave kindy his permission for posting on Fütüristika.

Vladimir MakaninAfter all the years (decades!) we have been standing in queues, we still have not managed to get used to them. They wear us down, they wear us out, we can’t take any more breathing down each other’s necks while placidly shuffling from foot to foot. The idea seems inapplicable to us that in those tedious moments of queueing yesterday and today the most important thing in life is taking place within us: our soul is living. Needless to say, we know (we have heard) that the Spirit br

Since we have published a Turkish translation of some interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu, are representing here an excerpt from Blinding, Book I.

War and War: A special literary project Moon, valley, dew, death. In the year of Our Lord, in March, to be precise on the night of the third day of the month, between about four and quarter past four, that…

Outsiders, people not in on the secret of our upbringing, are inclined to regard our demeanor, when the Englishman is here, as an insane demeanor; they, we ourselves, are inclined to regard our atmosphere at Stilfs as an artificial, insufferable…

from Mr. Palomar Mr. Palomar decides that from now on he will act as if he were dead, to see how the world gets along without him. For some while he has realized that things between him and the world…