The Saint Who Was a Noun
Every visitor to Hagia Sophia arrives, sooner or later, at the same question, usually asked…
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Cat on a Hot Tile
Last time I promised to get round to the collections, so let us begin with…
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A Palace Called Kiosk
We found ourselves, as one does, at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Or rather museums: the…
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No Sugar Plums in Champfleury
In September Moscow’s Novaya Opera brought its February premiere to Istanbul: The Nutcracker. Not a…
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Not on Record
You come to the consulate by appointment, but there is a queue all the same,…
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Kaçak
Moses, as we know, led the chosen people about for forty years and set them…
