Kaya Genç is the author of three books from Bloomsbury Publishing: The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey (2019), Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey (2016), and Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries (2015). He has contributed to the world’s leading journals and newspapers, including two front page stories in The New York Times, cover stories in The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and The Times Literary Supplement, and essays and articles in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Guardian, Financial Times, The New Statesman, The New Republic, Time, Newsweek, and the London Review of Books.