Author Ayten Tartici

Ayten Tartici

Ayten Tartici is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among other venues.

You Live Till You Die: Fatih Akin’s Hesitant Vigilante

June 2018

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Born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, the director Fatih Akin has never been shy of politics made personal. His films have long preoccupied themselves with individuals who struggle within their transnational soci...