If there is one word to describe Elif Batuman's new novel The Idiot, it's the word "mundane." And that just might be the novel's greatest strength. The book follows the year in the life of Selin, a ...
In 2023, I became convinced that my life was exactly like “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman ’99. Some book lovers choose to identify with witty Austenian heroines, Joycean everymen, or tortured Russian ...
Jackson Rathbone and Erika Christensen have signed on to star in the feature adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel The Idiot. The thriller centers on "a man of pure spirit who thinks he can save ...
“The Possessed.” “The Idiot.” Do you see a pattern here? What’s next — “Crime and Punishment?” “Notes From Underground?” “The Idiot,” Elif Batuman’s long-awaited fiction debut, follows “The Possessed” ...
Harvard in 1995 looked a little different from Harvard today. Email had just became a consistently used medium of communication, cellphones barely existed, and college courses were different. But some ...
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Selin, the heroine of Elif Batuman’s autobiographical first novel, The Idiot (Penguin Press), is an 18-year-old Harvard freshman of Turkish-American descent. Set in 1995, the novel observes the rise ...
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