Batuman’s follow-up to “The Idiot” follows the same character into her second year at Harvard. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

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Elif Karaarslan, a 24-year-old referee, has caught major backlash for what she allegedly did with a referee observer. Karaarslan and Orhan Erdemir, a 61-year-old referee observer, have both been ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elif Shafak’s new novel brings together four stories set in three different centuries: ancient Mesopotamia, ...

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 is the ...