Novelist Elif Shafak on James Baldwin’s Compassion

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Oct 19, 202400:29:52News & Politics

In the fifth episode of Notes on a Native Son, our guest is Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak . She has published 21 books, 13 of them novels — including “The Forty Rules of Love” and her latest, “There are Rivers in th...

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