Boyd Tonkin called her “A writer who weds the modern and the mystic,” when he interviewed her for the Independent newspaper in July 2007. On the occasion of her nomination for the Orange Prize, bianet ...

When the British-Turkish author Elif Shafak was a child, she observed that there were two types of stories: ones that were widely shared and others that were forgotten or silenced. She came to this ...

The award-winning Turkish-British writer, whose new book explores love and politics in Cyprus and London, talks about generational trauma, food in exile and how heavy metal helps her write If trees ...

Elif Batuman has turned her years in college into another book. Her highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 Pulitzer finalist The Idiot is out on Tuesday – and the lively, witty, inquisitive protagonist ...