Places
The View from Djibouti
Rachel Pieh Jones on the hottest country on earth: “Despite the listlessness of the waves, the winds off the ocean where the Red Sea bleeds into the Gulf of Aden provide a soothing breeze.”
Topics: Djibouti
Words Made Flesh
Brian McKanna on Istanbul’s newest museum, a project by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk: “Pamuk has fashioned a clever, fascinating study into the discrepancies between fact and fabrication.”
Topics: Turkey
The View from a Rickshaw
Chris Watts on what Chennai looks like from the back of a rickshaw: “Chennai roads are a maelstrom of close, breath-brief encounters. Nameless, nearly formless, strangers keep whizzing by.”
Topics: India
Secret Garden
One Muslim family has lived and worked in the Ferikoy Protestant Cemetery, a walled-off graveyard near Istanbul’s answer to Fifth Avenue, for going on half a century.
Topics: Turkey
