Elif Nur Turhan has done it again – and for the first time. Turhan, a heavy-hitting dynamo from Istanbul, stopped France’s Rima Ayadi in the sixth round to earn a WBA interim women’s junior ...

EITHER/OR. By Elif Batuman. Penguin Press. 368 pages. $27. Do you remember what it felt like to be a college sophomore? The Jell-O shots, cookie dough and moments of ...

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Your story “The Repugnant Conclusion” is adapted from your forthcoming novel, “Either/Or”—a sequel to your first novel, “The Idiot,” which told the story of a Turkish American girl, Selin, in her ...

Elif Shafak writes with her heart as much as her imagination. Her eye and ear seem to gravitate toward characters whose stories are rarely told: women, religious minorities, the displaced and despised ...

Although the incident in many ways is no surprise, the birth of the main character in Elif Shafak’s latest novel (short-listed for this year’s Booker Award) provides a telling context for Turkey’s ...