Elif Erdem

3 weeks ago | pubs.acs.org | Jingyu Wang |Elif Erdem |Luca Schmermund |Xiaodong Liang

Feb 24, 2025 | popmatters.com | Elif Erdem

Across her novels and short stories, Turkish writer Ayşegül Savaş’ creative approach brings to mind the opening of Steven Spielberg’s 2022 fictionalized autobiography of his beginnings, The Fabelmans. Sammy (Gabriel Labelle) is sitting on the stairway and watching his sisters take in the divorce news of their mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams), and father, Burt (Paul Dano). His middle sister, Natalie (Keely Karsten), cries out, and his mother rushes to console her.

Jul 5, 2024 | stereogum.com | Elif Erdem

Nothing could have prepared me for f(x)’s “NU ABO” at 13. The cover showed a young woman blindfolded, the title melting off the right side. The music video cast five young women in a tiny stage, changing outfits and dancing less in the cutesy pointing of Girls’ Generation’s smash hit “Gee” and more like the coordinated locking of SHINee’s “Lucifer.” And the music: bold, bratty, delightfully aggressive. What “NU ABO” meant, I didn’t know at the time.