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‘Oh Lord, What a Century You Brought Me Into!’
Once upon a time, as far back as 69 CE, there lived a holy man in the beautiful city of Izmir, Smyrna on the Aegean Coast.
 • Elif Shafak
'Admire As Much As You Can. Most People Don’t Admire Enough'
In 1889 the French painter Virginie Demont-Breton, who played a significant role in the inclusion and visibility of women in the art world, exhibited a…
 • Elif Shafak
In One Brief Moment All Eternity
Dear Friends, Literature Lovers,
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I Dream in My Dream All the Dreams of the Other Dreamers
There is a special place, a quiet shrine, inside the mess that is my heart for the American poet and philosopher Walt Whitman — born in Huntington, Long…
 • Elif Shafak
"Is There No Way Out of the Mind?"
Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn is a fascinating painting full of symbols, secrets and stories.
 • Elif Shafak
'All Colours Will Agree in the Dark'
There is a painting I came across some time ago while I was doing research on the history of colours for my new novel — a subject that has held me in…
 • Elif Shafak
"The Most Unlikely Couple Since The Owl and the PussyCat"
What is our job as writers, as poets, as readers, as lovers of literature?
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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks
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