Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Elif Shafak
Apr 13, 2025
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I love this photo, taken on a sunny day in Washington DC, 1928 by © Clifford R. What was she thinking, one wonders, a young flapper enjoying this brief respite between two world wars. Welcome to the Jazz Age—what a time for literature and the arts, set against the backdrop of a world fast spinning off its axis.

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