As far and wide as we travel, wherever we go, there is a need which we always feel, like hunger, thirst and exhaustion. That is the need for intimacy. Equally as important as having food, we have a need to feel close to other human beings, otherwise we can become very sick. Ulusoy presents the full palette of subtleties on this aspect of the human organism in his novel ‘Intimacy...

The meaning of life is written between the craters. Ulusoy prescribes a light dose of a mysterious Eastern medicine to cure what ails you. It is a treatment which is completely free of charge, and which you have probably taken occasionally without being aware of it. In Moon Therapy, the author and psychologist Dr. Mustafa Ulusoy goes right to the heart of that question we all avoid - ...

Choices are what set people apart from each other. In this compilation of essays, one of the main philosophical points that Dr. Mustafa Ulusoy makes is that people are born with more or less the same stuff. Of course there are some discrepancies but what really separates Nietzche from the author’s grandmother is that at some point in his life, Nietzche made the decision to be s...

From the woman who built the foundation of modern Turkish cinema, Ayse Sasa, are her memoirs of her struggles with schizophrenia. She had dealt with it since she was a teenager, but late in her career, the symptoms became incapacitating and she spent time in a mental institution to be treated and recover. During that time, she found her religion and has since come out of it stronger t...

Everything would have been different if not for the bird. ‘When we got back, a letter had arrived. It was from Ceylan. Sometimes writing is more precious than thought. A voice in my head said ‘writing lets you fly’ but years ago, that same voice said to me ‘in the context of eternity, all literature is nothing but a draft.’ There was a light on, and I wa...