I understand homicide to be the killing of a human being, be it in murder, warfare, punishment, accident, euthanasia, or suicide.
Sculpture by Iraida Barry (born 1899, Sevastopol; died 1981, Istanbul) at the Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, connected with Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (where I have been working); visited December 2, 2025
I went into Istanbul’s Pandora Bookshop a month ago, looking for an English translation of War and Peace, since the Garnett translation I had read at college was falling apart. I was told the Oxford World’s Classics edition (with the Maude translation) was coming the next week, and it did come.
Elif Batuman, The Idiot, in Nesin Matematik Köyü, Kayser Dağı Mevkii, Şirince, Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey, 2017.05.18
Polytropy 