Fighting Words with Elif Shafak and John Freeman

05/05/2020 33 min Temporada 1 Episodio 1

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In our first conversation, John Freeman, author and executive editor of Literary Hub, joins Turkish novelist and activist Elif Shafak to discuss how language operates in our contemporary public sphere. They single out words that have been hollowed out to conceal unpopular and even terrible truths, as well as others that still have the power to upend dialogues where the greater good is under siege.
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