{"title":"Periodicals","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781787702424","title":"The Passenger: Turkey","description":"Author: The Passenger\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9781787702424\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN THIS VOLUME: Shipwrecks Under Istanbul by Elif Batuman - Nations Within Nations by Asli Erdoga - How Turkish TV Is Taking Over the World by Fatima Bhutto - Also: the failed coup that was thirty years in the making; the rise of femicide in New Turkey; the flooding of a 12000 year-old town; the political satirist resisting censorship; the communist mayor, business à la Turque, and much more…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe birth of the “New Turkey”, as the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of “illiberal democracies” through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom and the independence of the judicial system. 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Through the voices of some of its best writers and journalists–many of them in self-imposed exile—The Passenger tries to make sense of this fascinating, maddening country, analyzing how it got to where it is now, and finding the bright spots of hope that allow its always resourceful, often frustrated population to continue living, and thriving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is The Passenger?\u003cbr\u003eThe Passenger collects the best long-form essays, investigative journalism, literary reportage, and visual narratives in order to tell the story of a country or city and to portray its shifting culture and identity, its public debates, the sensibilities of its people, its burning issues, conflicts, and open wounds. Taken together, these fragments form a novel, complex picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach volume of The Passenger contains 10-12 long-form pieces, an eclectic mix of original essays (commissioned from renowned local authors, journalists, international experts on each country\/city) and vital previously published writing, either translated or reprinted (from anthologies, books, local and international magazines and newspapers).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA series of regular “sections” complements each title, contributing to its vitality, readability, and appeal. 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The distance between the city centre and its outskirts is even more marked, as Paris seems to push away new arrivals, banishing them to its geographical and social margins. The glare of the city lights can be blinding, as the Paris celebrated in books and films clashes with reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd all the time the shadows are growing: the Bataclan terror attack, the violent protests of the gilet jaunes, rioting in the banlieues, Notre Dame in flames, record heatwaves, and the pandemic. Not just a series of unfortunate events, they are phenomena which all of the world's metropolis will have to face. 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Above all, the lack of the mass migration one would be except in these circumstances: the vast majority of Romans don't think for a second of \"betraying\" their hometown, and the many newcomers who have populated it in recent decades are often indistinguishable from the natives in the profound love that binds them to the city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRome is a place of contradictions and opposites: an \"incredibly deceptive city\", always different from what it appears to be. It is thought to be large but it is actually immense, the largest metropolis in Europe. Most important, contrary to the most common and least accurate stereotype about it, Rome is a profoundly modern city. While the city itself was founded almost three millennia ago, 92 per cent of its buildings have been built after 1945. 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