Critically acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak gives a perfect breakdown of why metal is one of the most interesting and exciting ...
Three graduate school roommates—a Moroccan, a Turk and a Spaniard—are strange bedfellows in a potentially inhospitable land in this painstakingly multicultural but rather discombobulated first novel ...
The well-traveled novelist Elif Shafak once made a discovery about a well-traveled tree. She was living in the United States when she learned about the fig. ELIF SHAFAK: When I was in Michigan, Ann ...
The Guardian Book Club marked the publication of the results of an exciting poll. Chaired by the Guardian’s chief books writer, Lisa Allardice, the evening will brought together contributors to this ...
This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcasThe Island of Missing Treest episode: ‘Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘Writers are the memory keepers’’ Lilah Raptopoulos Welcome to Life ...
Author cites Brexit and the climate crisis as examples of previous generations ‘breaking’ their future The author Elif Shafak has said she thinks “there’s a scream building up” inside many young ...
The Booker-shortlisted novelist is in self-imposed exile from Turkey, where she fears arrest. But here in Britain, she likes food that brings back memories of Istanbul Elif Shafak’s most recent novel, ...
Elif Shafak's protagonist is a young elephant keeper at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul Credit: Photo: Alamy Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red (2001) focused on miniaturist painters in Istanbul over nine days ...