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6 historical Beyoğlu places disappearing after gentrification… Istanbul news roundup…

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Historical Emek Theatre is already gone. For the other 5 places check out this post [in Turkish[. Istanbul central to Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind The Australian So writes Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003), a book that is both a childhood memoir and a paean to the Nobel prize-winning Hurriyet Daily … Read more

Literati roundup: “14,000 drawings of the French Revolution posted online

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14,000 drawings of the French Revolution posted online Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Guillotines and numbing satire figure strongly in an archive of images from the French Revolution, made available by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France Beautiful and Surprising Maps of the Worlds Within Books  Slate Articles by Dan Kois What does the town … Read more