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Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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The Idiot

The Idiot

Either/Or

Either/Or

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The Possessed

The Possessed

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