Matthew Stevenson

Leaving aside the amen choir in hard-core MAGA circles, is there anyone out there who doesn’t think Donald Trump is bat-shit crazy? How much more evidence

Leaving aside the amen choir in hard-core MAGA circles, is there anyone out there who doesn’t think Donald Trump is bat-shit crazy? How much more evidence is needed before he is gold-chained to the wall of a padded cell? The midnight tweets of himself as a cartoon action figure are sufficient proof of cognitive disorientation, More

A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from

A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from congressional representation; a lost tribe. Audit: Something bad that happens to other people. “Beautiful:” an adjective, best used to modify “missile strikes”. Ceasefire: arabic; when less than a thousand children in Gaza are More

Up against the Green Line on Cyprus. Photo by Matthew Stevenson.

The uninhabited “lost” city of Varosha, a district of Famagusta, along the Green Line in Cyprus. Photo by Matthew Stevenson.

Maybe if I had been in Famagusta in summer, I would have gone in search of a nearby beach, but as it was late February I set out on the road to

During one of my days in Nicosia, I decided to travel north to the coastal town of Girne, which before the division was known as Kyrenia. On my map it was

From the old fortress in Girne (in Turkish Cyprus) looking up at the Kyrenia Mountains, in which the author Lawrence Durrell lived in the 1950s, as he describes in his memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus.

The Nicosia cathedral of Saint Sophia that was converted to a mosque when the Ottomans came to Cyprus in 1570-71. Photo: Matthew Stevenson.