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Elif Batuman

vulture lists July 26, 2023

Greta Gerwig’s 10 Favorite BooksGeorge Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and more.

By Greta Gerwig
book review May 20, 2022

Either/Or Is a Coming-of-Age Story That Moves at the Speed of ThoughtEither/Or is a sequel to Elif Batuman’s campus novel The Idiot — and it reveals what she’s been up to this whole time.

By Sarah Chihaya

Dec. 6, 2017

The 10 Best Books of 2017Including titles by Percival Everett, Patricia Lockwood, and Elif Batuman.

By Christian Lorentzen
books Mar. 10, 2017

Elif Batuman: ‘Email Enabled a Whole New Kind of Pretentiousness’“Email enabled a whole new kind of pretentiousness.”

By Christian Lorentzen
Dec. 30, 2016

Elif Batuman’s ‘The Possessed’ Finds Absurdity and Sadness in Grad School 2016 was a very, very bad year no matter how you slice it. In tough times, comedy is often a form of escape that people turn to when they […]

By Priyanka Mattoo
high Apr. 21, 2011

Jonathan Franzen Keeps Weed in His FreezerWe know because Elif Batuman asked him.

By Willa Paskin