Elif Batuman, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $15 (296p) ISBN 978-0-374-53218-5
Life imitates art—and even literary theory—in this scintillating collection of essays. Stanford lit prof Batuman (recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award) gleans clues to the conundrums of human existence by recalling...
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Elif Batuman. Penguin Press, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59420-561-3
The mysterious relationship between language and the world” is just one of the questions troubling Selin Karada˘g, the 18-year-old protagonist of Batuman’s (The Possessed) wonderful first novel, a bildungsroman Selin narrates with fluent wit and...
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Elif Batuman. Penguin Press, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-55759-3
In this effervescent sequel to The Idiot, Batuman continues charting the sentimental education of Selin, a student of Russian literature at Harvard. As Selin begins her sophomore year in 1996, she’s still nursing an unrequited crush on Ivan, a...
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Elif Batuman, read by the author. Random House Audio, , unabridged, digital download, 9.5 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-1-5247-8158-3
In her debut memoir, originally published in 2010 and now available in the audio format, Batuman revisits her seven years as a grad student in Stanford’s comp lit program, where she focused on Russian novelists. Chapters on Babel, Dostoyevsky,...
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