Issue 58, October 2018

Anatolia's Far Pavilion

The late Brian McKee's photographic essay on the İshak Pasha Palace on Turkey's eastern border. Sicily's dazzling Byzantine mosaics. King Ashurbanipal at the British Museum and everyday life on the edge of the Assyrian Empire. The considered art of Navine G Khan-Dossos. Paolo Girardelli explores Istanbul's Imperial School of Medicine. Norman Stone chronicles the colourful but shadowy life of Ármin Vámbéry, spy and polyglot Orientalist. Evergreen Pandeli rises again. The potency of chard and beetroot…