
Seyben reflects on memory, displacement, and motherhood, drawing connections between her teenage years in Türkiye, her family’s forced relocations, and her present life in the United States. The conversation explores personal history and political context, education and cultural production, artistic responsibility, and the discipline required to sustain a writing practice across multiple professional and personal…

We are bored. Bored of mainstream narratives, of ceaseless mumbling, of effortlessly click-and-publish words. Bored of opinion-sharing and provocation, of judgment without curiosity. And we are bored of the violence of the banal. But mostly, we’re bored of stories that offer nothing but the already known. Putting together this issue, TBR Spring 2025, was an…