Writer Elif Shafak never takes the easy route. “World history shows we should be careful whenever anyone promises simple answers to complex questions, ” she says, speaking with characteristic precision. Whether teaching at the University of Oxford, lecturing on women’s rights or writing one of the many novels and essays that have made her Turkey’s most read female writer, she is an uncompromising public intellectual. Here, the Honor and Three Daughters of Eve author discusses what we can learn from This story is from Kinfolk Issue Twenty-Nine Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 42 Torrey Peters The Detransition, Baby author is living her best life. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Nic Stone How can a young adult fiction author tackle racism, inequality and incarceration—but not rob teen readers of their optimism? Arts & Culture Issue 37 Anne Tyler The author of sprawling family dramas on her own epic half-century of writing. Arts & Culture Issue 35 Mieko Kawakami Meet the rising author who already longs for obsolescence. Arts & Culture Issue 31 Archive: Langston Hughes Neda Semnani charts the life of a merchant sailor turned Harlem literary colossus. Arts & Culture Issue 30 Akwaeke Emezi An interview with the author who finished writing three novels before their first was even published.
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