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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鈥檚 eye to chart the deeper, current events swirling beneath society鈥檚 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鈥檚 a contrarian, but is she also a combatant in the western world鈥檚 culture wars?

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