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

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics.

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 Batuman's debut novel is the semi-autobiographical story of an ambitious woman embarking on her first year of university.

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 ...