Matt A. Hanson

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Matt A. Hanson is a journalist and editor in Istanbul. He reviews contemporary Turkish novels for World Literature Today and has written for Artforum, Artnet News, ARTnews, ArtAsiaPacific, Tablet, The Millions, Words Without Borders, and many other outlets on art, literature, history, and politics.

The First 100: Saturdays with Stella

January 2024
Matt A. Hanson
When reflecting on the experience of interviewing his own grandfather into his one hundredth year, Matt A. Hanson finds a kindred methodology in writer Michael Frank’s patience as he interviewed Holoc…
Ece Cingöz’s Parelion: A Potter’s Dream Studio in Istanbul

May 2023
Matt A. Hanson
At certain times of day, around summer, there are peculiar, soft bursts of sunlight that beam through the leaves of fig and plane trees on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Its rays fall gently over th…
Literary Istanbul

March 2023
Buket Uzuner, Erkut Tokman, Matt A. Hanson
We asked writers in Turkey two questions: What is the book, available in English, that best evokes Istanbul? What is a favorite Istanbul bookstore? Here are their answers. A City of…