Articles by James Tressler

November 2024

LETTER FROM ANKARA: New City, Old Friends

May 2024

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Departures and Arrivals

March 2023

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: A City On Edge

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Geography Is Destiny

February 2023

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: A Waking Nightmare

January 2023

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: All My Philosophies

November 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Only People in the World

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Taking Back the City

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: A Remarkable Man

October 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Notes on the War; View From The Bosphorus Bridge

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: On Life and Art

April 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Call to Prayer

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Midnight At The Pera Palace

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: At The Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks

March 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Eye on the Bosphorus

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The War To The North, And The Quiet Here

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Refuge in Moldova

February 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: My Friend in Kiev

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Some Time In Bebek

January 2022

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Notes From A Ghost

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: ‘The Club’ And The City

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: These and Other Winters

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: At the Library

December 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Being Here (and There)

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: In Search Of…

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: My Old Neighborhood

November 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Golden Hour

LETTER from ISTANBUL: Autumn Rhythms: Life in the ‘New Normal’

July 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: In The Shade of Karaköy

April 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Forbidden City

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The World’s Great Age

March 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Winter Tales

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: A Cup of Coffee

February 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: An American Life — Pap’s Papers

January 2021

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: What Falls From The Sky

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Never Say ‘Nevermore’

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Trouvaille

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Lost in the City

December 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Making of an American

August 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: New World Street

July 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Course of Young Love

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Odyssey Revisited

May 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Our Affectionate Disinfectant

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Quiet Desperation

LETTER FROM PRAGUE: Notes from the Šatna

April 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Building for the Apocalypse

March 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: In Our Solitude

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Day of the Virus

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: Three Days

January 2020

LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: War Weather