A Strange Woman

Ralph Hubbell is a writer and a translator (from the Turkish) whose work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Tin House, and The Sun magazine. His translation of Oğuz Atay’s&nbsp;1975 Korkuyu Beklerken (Waiting for the Fear)&nbsp;will be published in 2023 by NYRB Classics. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Ralph Hubbell

We All Killed Suphi: Strangeness as Possibility in Leylâ Erbil’s “A Strange Woman”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Ralph Hubbell is a writer and a translator (from the Turkish) whose work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Tin House, and The Sun magazine. His translation of Oğuz Atay’s&nbsp;1975 Korkuyu Beklerken (Waiting for the Fear)&nbsp;will be published in 2023 by NYRB Classics. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.