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Writer Lionel Shriver
The American writer Lionel Shriver tackles voluntary euthanasia in her latest book but she's also been outspoken in the western world's so-called culture wars.
In our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist’s eye to chart the deeper, current events swirling beneath society’s surface. Lionel Shriver is a British-based American writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and in her latest book, voluntary euthanasia. She’s a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world’s culture wars?
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