Mevlut Karatas, the uneducated street vendor at the center of Orhan Pamuk's luminous new novel, "A Strangeness in My Mind," never read William Wordsworth. He never paused over the English poet's ...

On a windswept afternoon in mid-December, writer Orhan Pamuk stood in a leafy square around the corner from Istanbul University, absorbed in a 40-year-old memory. He walked past parked motorcycles, ...

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These days, he sometimes feels annoyed when critics harp on about the ineffable melancholy and nostalgia (hüzün is the Turkish word) that haunts his depictions of the picturesque old imperial capital ...

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has written about his native city many times, most recently in the memoir “Istanbul” and a 2008 novel, “The Museum of Innocence.” He always seems to have more to say, ...

To my mind, there is no finer novelist living today than Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the Novel Prize in Literature in 2006. As I have written many times, The Museum of Innocence (2008) is the ...

Once again, the main character of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel, “A Strangeness in My Mind,” is Istanbul. The ancient city, the most populous in Turkey, stretches over the ...