Freedom to read is imperiled in a world that is ill at ease with the idea of freedom...of thought, of feeling, of difference. No one knows this better than Elif Shafak, the Turkish author of 20 books ...

Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today. By Stephen Markley New novels by Elif ...

New novels by Elif Shafak and Casey McQuiston, a biography of a gay cultural icon, a dystopian tale of A.I. gone awry — and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by Phillips’s latest is an ...

Turkish-British writer-activist Elif Shafak presents a hauntingly beautiful novel, "The Island of Missing Trees" (Bloomsbury), involving a pair of young lovers – one Turkish, one Greek – who are ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with renowned Turkish novelist Elif Shafak about the earthquake in Turkey, as a human tragedy and a possible political catalyst. The scope of devastation and death across ...

Best-seller Turkish author Elif Safak asked to testify for new book Father and Bastard. Safak and Metis Publishing House may be tried for insulting Turkishness after prosecution concludes ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: But I want to ask you to tell me about the trees and the nature and the natural world through which you tell this story. What made you focus on that? ELIF SHAFAK, AUTHOR, “THE ...

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 scope of devastation and death across Turkey and Syria is hard to hold in our minds. Human beings often want to look away. We are going to turn now to one of Turkey's most esteemed writers. Elif ...

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels, including her latest The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award.