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We All Killed Suphi: Strangeness as Possibility in Leylâ Erbil’s “A Strange Woman”
Ralph Hubbell reviews “A Strange Woman,” a novel by Turkish author Leylâ Erbil, translated by Nermin Menemencioğlu and Amy Marie Spangler.
Ralph Hubbell
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 1975 Korkuyu Beklerken (Waiting for the Fear) 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.