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Lionel Shriver, Writer

Lionel Shriver has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and voluntary euthanasia. She’s a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the West’s 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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30 minutes