A bikini-clad Hooters girl munches dried fruit bits and complains about her ballooning weight (up seven pounds to a grotesque 125) as she sits ringside, awaiting the signal to hold up the next ring ...

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 ...

Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak‘s Booker Prize-nominated novel “10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World,” which is set in the world of Istanbul sex workers, will be adapted into a feature film ...

While Turkey was once a bastion of secular, moderate rule, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it’s become increasingly authoritarian. Award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, who has often clashed with ...