Elif Shafak discusses her bestselling novel The Forty Rules of Love.

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today.

Elif Batuman, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” Valentyn Kuzan “Either/Or” is basically a year in the life of an ambitious, bookish Harvard student circa 1996.

In one respect, The Idiot, a debut novel by Elif Batuman, staff writer at the New Yorker, is an expansion of the Hungary-based segment of her nonfiction The Possessed: Adventures with Russian ...

Elif Shafak is a political scientist, and Turkey's most widely-read female novelist. Her new book, Three Daughters of Eve, explores terrorism, women's rights, and tensions between the religious ...