Julia Ormond in Young Catherine

"Turkish Literature in Translation Reading Group"s 26th event 🦉On Octob 23, we'll chat about What Remains, an experimental collection of "proems" from poet and author Leylâ Erbil, the first Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel. Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regis…

"@Amy_Spangler on Leyla Erbil’s dark vision of Istanbul’s history" via @TurkeyBookTalk. [3/5] turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/0…

The irony...

When people ask me what The Hunting Wives is about, I just tell them: Comphet.

“Bazen büyük felaketler, insanı kendisiyle buluşturur.” Yaş almanın hem fiziksel hem zihinsel değişimiyle baş etmeye çalışırken yaşamın konforunu yalnızlıkta bulmuş “ilk” kahraman, ömrünün son çeyreğini anlamlı kılmasını umduğu bir hikâye örüyor: Üçüncü Dünya Savaşı jeneriğinde, devlet ve polisin her köşeyi tuttuğu, tadı tuzu kaçmış bir dünyanın hikâyesi. Yaşanan karmaşaları kabullenmekte zorlanan “ikinci” kahraman ise ilmekleri başka bir hikâye için atıyor. #İthakiYayınları

Now folks will normalize NOT using intimacy coordinators because #Anora did not, to achieve a "more authentic" performance, ahem, and guess what?! Won the Oscar.

Greek translation of Leyla Erbil's A Strange Woman now out! 🥳🥳🥳

What @ChappellRoan is saying is that enthusiastic consent should be the goal, hopefully the norm, not just for sex, but for politics too. She's not over-dramatic, she knows what she wants. Kamala is no femininomenon. And what we need, is a femininomenon.

youtube.com/watch?v=bONVwyBT… Highly recommend this program for anyone genuinely interested in this topic.

The idea that c!s men pretend to be women to abuse women is an obfuscation. C!s men abuse women every day without consequences. The idea that they need to do something to “get away with it” is harmful to abuse victims, and that is often the point

Me preparing for Cameron v. Taylor 2 tomorrow 😀🥊

For weeks, the media made sure Gaza's astounding suffering – daily bombing of children and families, mass ethnic cleansing, genocide – shared the billing with (or more often got second billing after) the story of the shockwaves for Israel from Hamas' October 7 attack. As the toll of Palestinian casualties in Gaza started to eclipse the Oct 7 attack by orders of magnitude, the media still made sure to 'balance' its coverage with a prominent Israel story. That often involved running a piece referencing weeks-old events ahead of coverage of the horrors unfolding that day in Gaza. Now six weeks in, as almost every Palestinian family is ethnically cleansed and their homes destroyed, hospitals don't function and the encaged population lacks food and water, and there are no places to hide from the bombs, the media is treating the story of Gaza as stale. Coverage is perfunctory. Gaza barely makes the front pages any longer. It's all a far cry from the Ukraine war, which dominated the news agenda for more than a year. It's almost as if the media thinks Palestinians don't count – just as Palestinians haven't really counted for the West for the past 75 years of their oppression by Israel.

Israel told people inside al-Rantisi children's hospital to evacuate. They came out waving white flags and then the Israeli military shot at them.

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I had the honor of translating a story by Selahattin Demirtaş for this volume. He wrote it from prison, where he has been since November 4, 2016. In his story, and in his prison cell, he dares to imagine a better, hopeful future. May we all do the same. @hdpdemirtas

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One last picture book: “Memo and the Unexpected Gift” by Ezgi Keleş and Funda Özlem Şeran, illustrated by Ezgi Keleş, tr. from Turkish by @Amy_Spangler is about the changing relationship between a boy and his grandmother (Amazon Crossing Kids) (4). buff.ly/44ZvPxr

Honored to have this fabulous beagle pose with a delightful picture book I translated -- don't miss it!

Delightul picture book I translated about to come out from Amazon Crossing Kids -- Memo and the Unexpected Gift. Don't Miss It! @kidsreadtheworld'in bu Instagram fotoğrafını gör instagram.com/p/CxBhPPapF-P/…