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Alexander Christie-Miller
ALEXANDER CHRISTIE-MILLER  is a writer and journalist based in Istanbul. His writing about Turkish politics and culture has been published in Newsweek, the Times, the Atlantic, and other publications. He is a regular contributor to The White Review.


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Ada Kaleh

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Issue No. 17

Alexander Christie-Miller

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Issue No. 17

When King Carol II of Romania set foot on the tiny Danubian island of Ada Kaleh on 4 May 1931, it was said among...

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October 2015

War is Easy, Peace is Hard

Alexander Christie-Miller

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October 2015

At around midday on 19 July, Koray Türkay boarded a bus in Istanbul and set off for the Syrian...

look at your kitchen look at your kitchen oh my god look at your kitchen it’s delightful only wait ’til you hear what my husband said how it’s all very well if all you’ve got to do is look after the kids i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the night i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the morning so i get it in early: going from being a full-time event manager with a social life, a very fulfilling life, to being a full-time mum is a big shift i spend a lot of time mourning my old life i mean i’m very happy i wouldn’t change anything but it’s hard it’s difficult it’s lonely although i’m doing the most important job in the world i feel like a sack of shit but it’s fine i’ve been volunteering not doing a huge amount cold calling funny cos thats why i had a baby in the first place to get away from that shit and then the festival was this weekend for me, it was work i was going to enjoy myself i wouldn’t get too fucked up and i could go back go to the tent to feed him so friday night was fine but then saturday lloyd disappeared called me 2 hours later like i’m in luton what you doing in luton? urghdunno he said he was at the airport there were people laughing in the background i said: just remember in 2 and a half hours you’ve got to take the baby an hour later i called again this time he was in gatwick what you doing in gatwick? ughdunno 630 comes and the door opens he’s soaked in alcohol 10 minutes later he’s sleeping so i do breakfast and i go up at 730 to wake him i-i-i-i think you should get up and like it’s just so bad i’m already this kind of person i thought the transition was going to be harder but i’m settled i guess anyway guess who i met at the festival probably one of the most famous people in the world but it’s the motherfucking principle – i have to go to the festival with my baby because you’ve been on a fucking booze binge round London airports i just felt like such a gooner really bad really bad really really really bad your responsibility your child you’ve known about this for 3 fucking months i was so angry and he’s such a

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August 2014

Alexander Christie-Miller

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August 2014

ALEXANDER CHRISTIE-MILLER  is a writer and journalist based in Istanbul. His writing about Turkish politics and culture has been...

Forgotten Sea

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Issue No. 11

Alexander Christie-Miller

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Issue No. 11

I. As I stood on the flanks of the Kaçkar Mountains where they slope into the Black Sea near the town of Arhavi, the...
Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

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July 2013

Alexander Christie-Miller

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July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus routes, a destination and a...

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fiction

May 2012

Hunt for American Heiress Continues...

Seraphina Madsen

fiction

May 2012

Hunt for American Heiress Continues With Bizarre Manuscript Found in Cave in Altamira By ALICE SHIFT 7:00 AM ET...

Art

Issue No. 8

A Fictive Retrospective of the Bruce High Quality Foundation

Legacy Russell

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Issue No. 8

Here are some details of art history that may or may not be true:   In 2008 I was...

poetry

November 2013

Rescue Me

George Szirtes

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November 2013

Pain comes like this: packaged in a moment of hubris with a backing band too big for its own...

 

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