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Javier Cercas: “Something is either a novel or history.” Author's Brush: Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Sand, Elizabeth Bishop Tanıl Bora: "Change in continuity, continuity in change..." Tahar Ben Jelloun: What Can Literature Do? Notos, one of the leading magazines of our literature, turns to Murathan Mungan in this issue with its approach of turning all its author files into a permanent resource. Murathan Mungan is, first and foremost, a poet. It is not easy to be a poet in our living literature who keeps his readers as strong as he does in his field of attraction. Moreover, there is storytelling right next to it. Then his plays, novels, essays. The selections he prepared to connect his readers with passion for literature. His involvement with cinema, the lyrics he wrote for songs. Murathan Mungan is a true literary person. The file includes articles by Haydar Ergülen, Bülent Usta, Irmak Zileli, A. Ömer Türkeş, Özkan Ali Bozdemir, Karin Karakaşlı and Adalet Çavdar. Ömer Faruk Yaman and Seda Mit also contribute to the file with their drawings. The first interview of this issue of Notos is with Javier Cercas, one of the brightest writers of contemporary Spanish literature. Cercas, known in Turkish for his books Soldiers of Salamina, Laws of the Border, Tenant, Obsession, is interviewed by Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Notos' second interview is with Tanıl Bora on his newly published political thoughts book, Currents. Kerem Işık's books that he considers must-read are listed in the An Author's Choices section. Gamze Arslan also tells Notos about the author she was most impressed by, along with the reasons. Hakan Tağmaç, Mehtap Ceyran and Berkan M. Şimşek tell about their own writing adventures and their latest published books with short answers to short questions. Authors whose stories appear in this issue of Notos: J.D. Salinger, Stig Dagerman, Ömer Arslan, Tülin Er, Fatma Nuran Avcı, Ezgi Polat, Ümit Yılmaz, Özgür Yılmaz, Hakan Uzbek, Derya Derya Yılmaz, Sezen Kayhan.
