I thought a post on melancholy would fit well into the autumn feel that is slowly creeping into our lives. In the psyche  of the western readers who found their way into the city through Pamuk's memoirs or in the lives  of many of my fellow...
A treat at Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamam- a hamam by Sinan the architect.My reading list for summer: Again about  Istanbul... Zeynep Çelik's The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an  Ottoman City in the 19th Century.My Nişantaşı...